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The Guest Nobody Invited

A chalet, the road closed by snow since six. At midnight the hostess realises she does not know the name of one of the men in her sitting room. He has been drinking and laughing with her guests for five hours, he has lied to nobody, and two of those guests know exactly who he is. Who is he?

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.