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Illustration for the riddle “The Sawdust in the Wings”

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The Sawdust in the Wings

A circus performer is found dead in his dressing room; he took his own life. In a corner of the room, a small pile of sawdust and wood shavings. That sawdust explains his death. How?

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.