Cottage muder investigation puzzle
A wealthy man lives alone in a small cottage. Being partially handicapped, he had everything delivered to his cottage. The mailman was delivering a letter one Thursday when he noticed that the front door was ajar. Through the opening he could see the man’s body lying in a pool of dried blood.
When a police officer along with sherlock holmes arrived they surveyed the scene. On the porch were two bottles of warm milk, Monday’s newspaper, a catalogue, flyers, and unopened mail. Sherlock Holmes suspects it was foul play.
Who does he suspect and why?
The person delivering the newspaper. Since the man was lying in a pool of dried blood, the murder must have happened before and the newspaper on the porch was the Monday one. So the suspect saw the murder and didn’t report it or he himself murdered the man.
The newspaper man could be a viable suspect. The blood id dried means that the dead man was killed long time back. The milk was warm, means it was delivered recently – may be a few minutes ago. But the newspaper found on the porch was of Monday, which means that the last tine newspaper man made delivery was on Monday. Why didn’t he deliver on the next three days? (Probably) because he knew that the man is already dead. That makes him guilty of at least hiding a crime if not himself committing it.
(The newspaper man may argue that he didn’t deliver the papers after Monday because the (now-dead) man had told him (on Monday) that he was going out of town for a week or so. But the argument is weak, because, had the man planned any such trip, he would have informed the milkman also, and he also wouldn’t have made the delivery.)
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