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A Letter from Abroad

A man receives a long, warm letter from his brother, who is traveling abroad with a girlfriend the family barely knows. The trip is wonderful, the letter says, and they are staying another month. The details are right and the tone is his brother's. The man reads it once and reports a murder. Why?

The solution

Uncover this answer in Post Mortem. In the app, the narrator answers your questions as you piece together the story.

Available on Google Play and the App Store.

Where do you start?

Read the scene again and separate the facts from your assumptions. With a narrator who knows the answer, ask one question at a time. They answer yes, no or irrelevant.