When their car runs out of gas, a man leaves his wife alone while he hikes back to the nearest filling station. When he returns with the gas, his wife is dead and a stranger is in the car. Incredibly, when the police arrive, they do not arrest or even interrogate the stranger.
What happened?
Note: I have misgivings as to whether these will work well over a message board as opposed to live action, so to speak. Still, it’s worth a try. You may pose only yes or no questions in an effort to uncover what’s going on.
[completely off-topic: I act in a once-a-month completely improved murder mystery at a local inn. It was this past weekend. I can’t believe after spending 48 hours with housewives who think they are Jessica Lansbury, I am posting in this thread. ::sigh::]
I’m going to experiment with keeping this in one thread for a while, rather than opening a new thread for each of the different stories.
Three hikers discover a cabin in the mountains. The sole occupant, a writer, is dead. Oddly enough, it quickly becomes apparent that if he had only stopped writing before the thunderstorm, he probably would have survived.
I had the solution to that after reading the OP. Unfortunately, by the time I read teh op you’d had it solved for an hour. Serves me right for doing my homework before reading MPSIMS.
–John
'Twis brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.