Case 01
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra are found dead on the floor, surrounded by broken glass and a spreading pool of water. Nobody was home.
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Case 02
Tracks in the Snow
A murder is committed on snow-covered ground. The detective follows a single set of tracks to a house where four people live, and knows at once which of them did it. Nobody has said a word to her.
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Case 03
The Puddle
A man is found hanged in a locked, completely empty room. There is no chair, no stool, nothing he could have climbed on — only a puddle of water on the floor beneath him.
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Case 04
The View
Late at night, alone in her lit front room, a woman looks out of the window and understands in that moment that she is about to die.
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Case 05
Hands Up
A man in a crowded room takes out a pistol and fires two shots. Several people immediately put their hands up. There are police officers in the room, and none of them arrests him.
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Case 06
The New Shoes
A woman buys a new pair of shoes and goes to work. Wearing them, she dies the same day. There is nothing wrong with the shoes.
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Case 07
Lobster
A man orders lobster for dinner. He knows he is severely allergic to it, and that eating it will kill him. He eats it anyway, and dies.
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Case 08
The Draw
A man's name comes out of the hat. He has won the draw. He kills himself the same day.
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Case 09
The Stranger
A man is driving with his wife when he suddenly pulls over and gets out. When he returns to the car his wife is dead — and there is a stranger inside with her.
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Case 10
Rubbish
A man becomes rich in jewels, and dies among rubbish the same night.
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Case 11
The Diver
A man is found dead deep inside a forest, in full scuba gear — wetsuit, fins, tank. The nearest water is kilometres away.
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Case 12
The Telephone
A woman jumps from a window. On the way down she hears a telephone start ringing in the room she has just left, and she regrets everything.
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Case 13
The Chessboard
Two dead men in a sealed room. On the table between them, a chessboard with a finished game on it.
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Case 14
Gull
A man orders gull meat in a restaurant. He takes one mouthful, sets down his fork, and later the same day takes his own life.
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