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1. The house has been flattened - literally flattened, as though a tornado had hit it. Detective Hood tells you that the only evidence of a perpetrator she can find is a hank of dark hair.
What can hair analysis in a police laboratory NOT determine about the subject it came from?
2. The homeowner comes home (he'd been at the market), but before you can question him the lab calls with the report on the hairs. Whomever they belong to had been drinking water and absorbing local chemicals in an area of land stretching across Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Where could the culprit have come from?
3. The homeowner doesn't know who would knock down his house. He says he'll go stay with his brother for now. Luckily, a witness down the street saw someone running away after the crime was committed. The description is: about 85 pounds, about three feet tall, running about 40 MPH, and wearing a gingham dress.
Hmmm. What is gingham?
4. On your way back to your office, you sense danger and leap into a doorway - just in time to avoid the car that jumped onto the curb and tried to kill you! The driver is just a shadowy figure in a gingham dress and bonnet, but you at least manage to get a look at the bumper sticker, which is from a college in Raleigh.
Where in America is Raleigh?
5. Back in your office you take a quick shot of liquor made in the Bavarian Alps, pop in a Chester Arthur Burnett CD, and think about the case. Before you come to any solutions, the phone rings. It's Detective Hood again, and she says "Get over here, we've got another destroyed house!"
In what country are the Bavarian Alps?
6. This house is completely destroyed as well, and you wonder what they're making homes out of these days - straw and sticks? "The brothers were inside, and they're both injured," Detective Hood says. "One got knocked in the hock, and the other pulled a hamstring".
Where is the hamstring?
7. While you and Detective Hood are examining the wreckage, one of the bystanders lets out a low, appreciative whistle. "Male chauvinist..." Hood mutters under her breath.
Which famous television show (from 1960-1968) had a theme song that was whistled over scenes of a man and his son heading to the ol' fishin' hole? (the actor who played the son would later star in "American Graffiti" alongside a disc jockey born Robert Weston Smith)
8. A thought strikes you - you know where the criminal will strike next! You tell Hood that there's no time to huff and puff - you've got to get to the house of the third brother right now.
You're still thinking of television shows. Which show (1994-2000) was the story of the Salinger children, forced to deal with their parents' deaths in a car accident, and which featured brothers Charlie, Owen and (most importantly) Bailey?
9. You pull up in front of an opulent brick house, with statuary scattered around the manicured front lawn (a bust of Orwell, one of Jim Henson, one of Circe), and you hope you're not too late. Anxiously you look up at the chimney, and are relieved to see that there's no smoke coming out of it.
Who wrote the 1925 mystery novel "The Secret of Chimneys" along with 79 other mysteries (like "Murder in Retrospect")?
10. You kick in the door, surprising the third brother, he's getting ready to light a fire in the fireplace where a large cookpot is hanging. "Drop the match, you swine!" you yell. Beside you, Hood pulls her gun, and the guy tries to escape, but you manage to subdue him. You pull a wad of photographs from his pocket and nod in satisfaction. "Blackmail", you say. "I knew it. Hood, why don't you let the victim out of the cookpot now?"
You've got all the clues, now. Who is in the pot?
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