# Help me remember the title of a murder mystery. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116 "2015-10-10T02:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/1 "2015-10-10T02:52:37Z")
A long time ago I read a murder mystery and I was not able to find it by searching the internet. I read the story as a tween and I don’t have the greatest memory so any (or all) of this may be wrong: A rich old codger (who may collect rare stamps) is killed–assassinated, really–by being shot through a window. His dying words sound like “I suspect mice…”. The trajectory of the bullet through the window makes it look like it came from a near by house. Both of these facts are red herrings; the codger is attempting to say “I suspect my solicitor” who is indeed the murderer. He rigged up the fire escape in a way that he could fire the gun to look like it came from the neighbor. Does this sound familiar to any of you? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/2 "2015-10-10T02:56:15Z")
Don’t know. Sounds a lot like an Agatha Christie. Did it seem like it was impossible for the solicitor to have shot him? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/3 "2015-10-10T03:00:22Z")
It’s from an Alfred Hitchcock anthology: AH’s Solve Them Yourself Mysteries. Not sure of the title of the individual story, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/4 "2015-10-10T03:11:19Z")
Most likely “The Mystery of the Three Blind Mice.” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/5 "2015-10-10T03:58:44Z")
[Here is a review and breakdown of the stories](http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcocks-Solve-Them-Yourself-Mysteries-Hitchcock/product-reviews/0394812425) ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/6 "2015-10-10T05:21:57Z")
Thanks for solving another mystery for me – \*The Three Blind Mice \*is also the story that uses the line “What is so rare as a day in June?” as a clue. I’ve been wondering about that story forever (well at least since around 1972). I do remember the “my solicitor” clue as well. It’s funny how those stories stick with you. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/7 "2015-10-10T15:59:05Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > Most likely “The Mystery of the Three Blind Mice.” \THAT’S IT!!!\ You guys are amazing. Solved in less than an hour. I’m already looking into getting it from the library. Thanks Ulf and Mudshark! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/8 "2015-10-10T16:46:41Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > \THAT’S IT!!!\ > > You guys are amazing. Solved in less than an hour. I’m already looking into getting it from the library. Thanks Ulf and Mudshark! Isn’t it Charlie Brown who shouts “THAT’S IT!!”? ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/9 "2015-10-10T20:54:53Z")
Check out the last few seconds of this: [Charlie Brown Christmas - Jingle Bells - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsFcQJeycM) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/10 "2015-10-10T20:59:30Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Check out the last few seconds of this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsFcQJeycM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsFcQJeycM) How funny! Same show, different scene: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-NJGRiV8jGM/hqdefault.jpg "A Charlie Brown Christmas Lucy And Charlie Brown") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJGRiV8jGM) Funny I only remembered one and not the other. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/11 "2015-10-11T02:46:40Z")
Hah! And likewise I forgot about that one. I never noticed both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Jimfahy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jimfahy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimfahy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/12 "2023-02-11T01:30:44Z")
A late reply. I was watching ‘You’ and the subject of murder mysteries came up and triggered a memory of the story I had read in a book borrowed from our mobile library when I was about 9, 57 years ago. I remembered ‘it was mice…’ and that it was my solicitor and that it was a Hitchcock story. An Internet search led me here. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/13 "2023-02-11T02:38:51Z")
I remember reading this story many years ago - part of the twist was that Americans would not recognize the word solicitor as a synonym for lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-the-title-of-a-murder-mystery/734116/14 "2023-02-11T03:06:43Z")
The mother of one of my best friends when I was a teen was a lawyer. She told a group of us once that, while on holidays in the States, asked what she did for a living she replied, “I’m a solicitor,” and everyone assumed that she was a prostitute.