Nope! Additional info just came in:
It seems some of the goose pluckings had been sharpened into writing instruments, and in the criminal’s haste to flee, he/she left both the raw and sharpened items littered all over the scene…
Ah. Well, my clue is a well-known Doper. Nobody obscure.
Could it be Pensandfeathers?
Clue: We’ve searched the place backwards and forwards, and it’s always the same. We got zero, nothing.
I guess mine was too obscure.
Clue: The death of the Tooth Fairy was a real mystery. Police said the only thing left at the scene was a note, addressed to the Tooth Fairy: You don’t exist.
She’s also the (adopted) granddaughter of an important persona, one who was directly involved in the Tooth Fairy’s death.
Actually, it wasn’t meant to be a clue. :o It was a response to a comment by another poster. But since Nametag took a guess, let’s just say he’s right and move on.
There are no clues in this post. Really.
I screwed this clue up, and fixing it makes it kind of stupid, but here goes. . .
Clue: We’ve searched the place backwards and forwards, and it’s always the same. We get one thing, then nothing.
The only one that comes to mind is 1010011010 but that name was used already.
SusanStoHelit, then?
No.
And now I realize that the original version of the clue was correct after all, and my attempt to fix it made it wrong, so we’re back to:
Clue: We’ve searched the place backwards and forwards, and it’s always the same. We got zero, nothing.
HINT: The first syllable of the perpetrator’s name sounds like a word that can mean two totally opposite things. Neither of them is one.
YES! I thought this would be easy! Good job, Monstre!
Yep!!
Just reposting those pieces of the clue together, still unsolved (but a known Doper, not an obscure one).
And a new case:
Monstre Clue #3: The detective reported that he arrived at the scene just a moment too late. “By the time I got there, she had already crept up the wall and escaped”.
gobear!?
You got it!!
Something old:
“Still can’t find her?”
“No, sir. But we know she is clearly…”
“At the end of her rope, yes, you said that.”
“And we know she’s receiving…”
“Public assistance, I know. What do they call those people, ‘dolies’?”
“Something like that, sir.”
“Do you have anything else at all?”
“Only that she appears to have moved to town in February.”
“When was she last seen?”
“Last sighting we have is 4 days ago.”
“Anything more on that large evil spellcaster you’ve been chasing?”
“Not yet, sir, but we’re hopeful he’ll confess if we catch him.”
“Why’s that?”
“Ask him anything and he’ll tell you.”
“What are your chances of finding him soon?”
“Pretty good, we think. We have his space age bachelor pad staked out. And it being near his birthday and all, we might find him out celebrating.”
“OK, stake out the theme parks.”
“All of them?”
“Yes, all of them.”
“But there must be dozens of them around here.”
“If this guy’s large and dangerous and has magic powers, I want him caught, dammit!”
And something new:
“What now?”
“A very odd case, sir?”
“So what else is new? Whaddya got?”
“The only thing the witnesses remember was the perp’s rather odd… headgear.”
“What was it, a helmet, a wig, a war bonnet, what?”
“No sir… an animal.”
“He had an animal on his head? What kind of animal?”
“A donkey, sir.”
“Are you sure?”
“Well, they weren’t positive, but that’s what it looked like.”
Ass_for_a_Hat, and I probably got the spacing wrong on that.
New clue from me:
Police have identified the suspect as the arch nemesis of a local fast food chain owner. Said owner has repeatedly rebuffed attempts at trade secrets theft for a specialty sandwich. The employees of the establishment (one cashier and one fry cook) have confided in the authorities that they believe the suspect to have fled the city and settled in a nice housing development just outside the metropolitan area.
Ayup!
Machetero?
If ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Not another clue. A reflection on the fact that I know nothing of the Doors save from the fact that Jim Morrison fronted them (I think). My ignorance is why I got it right when others were doubtless rejecting it!
A couple more clues for extant posers:
Clue: She’s alive. Or should that be, a life? Animal life, most especially.
Clue: Apparently he died of his own hand, emulating his Greek philosophic hero.
The victim might have worked in a pharmacy. Or is he an evergreen cone-bearer who is pining away in the US of A?
Suburban Plankton.