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Here's a crime puzzle. Difficulty: Easy-Medium
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The ship's risk manager was nearly drowning in anxiety. When she'd finished playing the small snips of film retrieved from the ship's video surveillance cameras, she whined, "We have no idea what happened to Mr. Larson. His wife is frantic. You need to help me, Captain Bly!"
"Now is not the time to panic, Gloria."
Captain Bly famously kept his cool under pressure. This wasn't the first time a passenger had disappeared from his ship and it wouldn't be the last.
Cruise Ship was a cauldron of drunken revelers every night of the week.
Some of them got left in port.
Gloria wrung her hands and paced the cabin.
"Mr. and Mrs. Larson are with us throughout the Mediterranean on their honeymoon. Last night, they drank two bottles of wine at dinner, and had several cocktails in the Under Sea Lounge. Witnesses say they stumbled back to their cabin with a bottle off vodka at about 3 a.m."
She took a deep a breath and stated the rest in a rush, as if she wouldn't be able to finish otherwise. "Mrs. Larson passed out. When she woke up this morning, her husband had disappeared."
Gloria showed the captain two photos: One showed a bloody handprint on the four-foot railing outside his fourteenth deck cabin, and another showed a blood spotted awning on the balcony below. Captain Bly studied them carefully.
"It's a long way down and we're ten miles at sea from Kasudashi now," Gloria said. "No one could swim that far, especially if they were injured."
When she'd gone, the captain review her story and the collection of pictures she'd left. Three showed the couple in the Under Sea Lounge emptying their glasses of wine. Unfortunately, the ship did not have surveillance cameras in the cabin's hallways to identify those who entered the state-rooms. In international waters, Captain Bly was responsible for justice. He called on Chief Capote, head of ship security.
"We cleaned up over four liters of blood in that cabin that matches Mr. Larson's blood type. We're running the DNA now. " Chief Capote said. The captain showed Chief Capote one of the cabin photos Gloria had left:
"What did they have in this cooler?" he asked.
"Mrs. Larson said it was her insulin---she's diabetic."
"Did you check inside to verify that?" asked the captain.
"No."
Captain Bly thought for a few moments. "How much life insurance was there and who gets it?"
"Five million dollars, I'm told. The beneficiary is Mrs.Larson."
Captain Bly smiled. "Bring Mrs. Larson to my cabin. And check the cooler for traces of Mr. Larson's blood."
Who killed Mr. Larson?
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Here's a crime puzzle. Difficulty: Easy-Medium
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The ship's risk manager was nearly drowning in anxiety. When she'd finished playing the small snips of film retrieved from the ship's video surveillance cameras, she whined, "We have no idea what happened to Mr. Larson. His wife is frantic. You need to help me, Captain Bly!"
"Now is not the time to panic, Gloria."
Captain Bly famously kept his cool under pressure. This wasn't the first time a passenger had disappeared from his ship and it wouldn't be the last.
Cruise Ship was a cauldron of drunken revelers every night of the week.
Some of them got left in port.
Gloria wrung her hands and paced the cabin.
"Mr. and Mrs. Larson are with us throughout the Mediterranean on their honeymoon. Last night, they drank two bottles of wine at dinner, and had several cocktails in the Under Sea Lounge. Witnesses say they stumbled back to their cabin with a bottle off vodka at about 3 a.m."
She took a deep a breath and stated the rest in a rush, as if she wouldn't be able to finish otherwise. "Mrs. Larson passed out. When she woke up this morning, her husband had disappeared."
Gloria showed the captain two photos: One showed a bloody handprint on the four-foot railing outside his fourteenth deck cabin, and another showed a blood spotted awning on the balcony below. Captain Bly studied them carefully.
"It's a long way down and we're ten miles at sea from Kasudashi now," Gloria said. "No one could swim that far, especially if they were injured."
When she'd gone, the captain review her story and the collection of pictures she'd left. Three showed the couple in the Under Sea Lounge emptying their glasses of wine. Unfortunately, the ship did not have surveillance cameras in the cabin's hallways to identify those who entered the state-rooms. In international waters, Captain Bly was responsible for justice. He called on Chief Capote, head of ship security.
"We cleaned up over four liters of blood in that cabin that matches Mr. Larson's blood type. We're running the DNA now. " Chief Capote said. The captain showed Chief Capote one of the cabin photos Gloria had left:
"What did they have in this cooler?" he asked.
"Mrs. Larson said it was her insulin---she's diabetic."
"Did you check inside to verify that?" asked the captain.
"No."
Captain Bly thought for a few moments. "How much life insurance was there and who gets it?"
"Five million dollars, I'm told. The beneficiary is Mrs.Larson."
Captain Bly smiled. "Bring Mrs. Larson to my cabin. And check the cooler for traces of Mr. Larson's blood."
Who killed Mr. Larson?
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