Murder Mystery Contest - It's Murder! (Re-run)

If you have been a member of Whoduknit since the beginning - you may remember this one. But do you remember the solution?


A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her dream guy so much, that she fell in love with him right there, but never asked for his number and could not find him. A few days later she killed her sister.

Question: What is her motive for killing her sister?

E-mail your answers to me -mailto:-grammieknits@yahoo.com by Sunday, June 6. (Do not send your answer to the Whoduknit Group!) Correct answers will go into a drawing for a prize from the prize locker.

But, beware!
If you answer this correctly, you think like a psychopath. This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer. Many arrested serial killers took part in the test and answered the question correctly. If you get it right - I'll know who to stay away from!

No Noose is good news!

Solution:

Although James Brett said that he did not know where Red Hart was staying and had never been there, he knew that the door chime was coming from the back door and not the front, which an innocent person would have assumed. We had eight correct answers this week and Judy, our newest member (how's that for beginner's luck!) won the drawing! Congratulations Judy. Please choose a prize from the prize locker in the files on the Yahoo Group and send me your address. (grammieknitsatyahoodotcom).

James Brett called Lt. Hugh Dunnit in a panic. His business partner, Red Hart had been morose ever since his wife asked him to move out of the house. For the past several days he hadn't shown up at the office and no one had any idea where he was. Brett said he had just received a phone call from Hart saying he couldn't go on without her.
Two hours later Lt. Dunnit was driving to Hart's house with Brett who explained to Lt. Dunnit, "I should have visited him, but nobody knew where he was living. I got the address of the house he was renting this afternoon when he telephoned me to say he was contemplating suicide. I thought you'd better come with me and perhaps have a talk with him."
"He said it was on 252 Plymouth Lane, over the phone," went on Brett.
They found the house and Hugh Dunnit left the car first. Finding the front door ajar, he entered and switched on the lights. Five minutes later the two men found Red Hart hanging by a beam in the attic. As they stood silently staring at the body, a door chime sounded downstairs.
With Lt. Dunnit right behind him, Brett ran to the back door. There stood a teenage girl. "Mother asked me to return this bottle of milk to Mr. Hart," she said.
Lt. Dunnit took the milk, put it in the refrigerator, and then promptly read James Brett his rights and arrested him for the murder of Red Hart. What made him suspect Brett?

e-mail your answer to me at grammieknitsatyahoodotcom by midnight on Saturday, Aug. 9

Who Broke the Window Solution

Solution: The note said ? (question mark) Yarnover - so he knew he should question Mark!

One summer night, Lt. Hugh Dunnit was in living room watching an old episode of Dragnet on T.V. All of a sudden a rock came crashing through his window, breaking it. Lt. Dunnit got up and looked out the window just in time to see three neighborhood kids who were brothers run around a corner. Their names were John Yarnover, Mark Yarnover and Paul Yarnover. The next day Lt. Dunnit got a note on his door that read "? Yarnover. He broke your window." Which of the three Yarnover brothers should Hugh Dunnit question about the incident?

Send your answer to me (grammieknits@yahoo.com) by midnight on Saturday, August 2.

Did Bob Kill Pat- Solution

Solution: Yes, that's right - Bob is a cat and Pat is a fish...and Bob was very naughty, but you can't arrest a cat! In a random drawing of all the correct answers Susan Mrenna was the winner! Thanks to all of you for playing - you are all way too smart. I will have to start coming up with some harder mysteries!

Ms. Dunnit lives next door to Tony, Ilene, Pat and Bob. Sunday evening she got a frantic call from Ilene saying that she and Tony had just returned home from a dinner out and found Pat, lying dead, in a puddle of water surrounded by shattered glass. Irene was certain that Bob had killed Pat, (they hadn't been getting along at all) and when Lt. Hugh Dunnit was called in, he agreed that all of the evidence pointed to Bob. However, Bob was never arrested or prosecuted for the crime. Why not?

E-mail your solution to me (grammieknits@yahoo.com) by Saturday, June 7.

Mysteries Revealed!

First - the May Mystery KAL -It's a knitting needle cozy for Miss Silver - so that she has something to carry her needles around in when she is solving all of those crimes! The pattern was adapted from the Princess Needle Cozy by Classic Yarns . It really does hold quite a few pairs of needles - I have four in this one and could easily add a couple more. I found that the best way to put them in is pointed side up so that they don't come through the bottom of the cozy. I hope that you enjoyed knitting yours and will post your photos on the blog!

Two members guessed correctly what it was - Congratulations Valerie and Heather! If you two will send me your mailing addresses (grammieknits@yahoo.com) I will send you some personalized knitting note cards.

And...How did she know? While Tink was telling Miss Purl how he was going to kill her, she continued to plant the tulip bulbs. Little did he realize that she was planting them in a pattern. In the spring when Ms. Dunnit visited the flower gardens she could very clearly see "Tink killed me" spelled out in tulips.

At least this time you were all on the side of the law! 12 members guessed correctly - and the lucky winner is .... Aunt Kathy! Must be beginners luck! Choose a prize from the prize locker, send me your address, and it will be on it's way to you Kathy.


Be looking for a new Murder Mystery to solve later on today!

How did she know?

On a crisp fall day, Ms. Dunnit's old friend Purl was planting a border of Tulip bulbs around her garden. She was very proud of her gardens but she knew that this was probably the last year she would be able to do the planting herself. She had suffered two heart attacks in the past year and her doctor had warned her that she would not survive another. It was late in the afternoon when she finally began the last row of planting. Suddenly a shadow fell across the flowerbed and she heard a voice say "Hello, Auntie". It was her good for nothing nephew, Tink, who was always begging for money. But, not this time - this time he announced that he had come to kill her! He knew, that although she had bequeathed her house and gardens to a museum with the stipulation that they keep them exactly as she had left them, the rest of her estate would be his. Tink had gambling debts that needed to be paid off and he had decided he could not wait for his aunt to die of natural causes.

Not knowing what else to do, Aunt Purl went on planting her tulip bulbs very carefully. Whatever happened she was determined to finish planting the garden. Suddenly she turned and saw Tink take something out of his pocket. It was a water pistol and he explained that it contained Amyl nitrate, which was a powerful heart stimulant. He began squirting her with it, knowing that it would cause a fatal heart attack and that by the time her body was found the rain that was predicted for later that day, would have washed all traces of the amyl nitrate away.

When Ms. Dunnit called to pay a visit the next day, she found Purl's corpse in the garden and called the police. The coroner ruled death by natural causes and no one (except Ms. Dunnit) saw any reason to doubt it. Tink inherited the bulk of her estate, except for the house and gardens, and promptly began squandering it on gambling and other unsavory activities.

In the spring Ms. Dunnit paid a visit to the police and told them she knew that her friend Purl had been murdered and she knew who did it!

How did Ms. Dunnit know that Tink had killed her friend?

E-mail your answers to me at grammieknits@yahoo.com (please don't comment on the blog - you'll give it away!) by Saturday, May 17.