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Illustration for the riddle “Death at Sea”

The telling detail · ★★☆

Death at Sea

A man reads in the newspaper that a woman fell overboard from an ocean liner and drowned, on the crossing that was her honeymoon trip. The article calls it an accident. From that single read, the man knows it was murder and calls the police. How does he know?

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.