I am sure that you have heard of the proverbial smoking gun, no? It means proof that someone is guilty. Well here is a case where there actually was a smoking gun. Except that in actual fact, it was a knife.
It happened to be a very fancy knife with a carved ivory handle and it was found lying right next to the victim in the kitchen in a pool of blood. Sounds rather like a game of Clue but this was no game. The victim was a food critic and he was found lying on the floor of the kitchen that belonged to Chef Shiff at his restaurant Chez Chef Shiff.
This happened after the restaurant had closed for the night and the Chef himself claimed to have been out at the time of the murder. He said that he returned to find the body. It was clear that the knife belonged to the chef, the chef to the restaurant, and the victim to the coroner...but Shiff adamantly denied any wrongdoing.
Dumbrow was there of course and as usual put two and two together to get four...he slapped the cuffs on the chef. If I hadn’t been there to save the day, Shiff would have been prepping his next meal in the joint.
Lucky for him I was immediately able to see that Chef Shiff was innocent.
How did I know?
Nano Solution_____________________________________________
“Chef Shiff,” you shout, “was right-handed and the knife was for lefties!”
“Once again I see that your rationality is getting the better of you,” Nano says. “But no, it was much simpler than that. I could see from the bullet hole in the head that the victim was shot not stabbed.”
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