Detective Riddles / Situation Puzzles

Sherlock Holmes was walking down the corridor. Suddenly he heard a woman screaming, “Please, John, don’t kill me!” A shot rang. Holmes burst into the room. In one corner lay a dead woman and a gun. In another corner stood a postman, a lawyer, and an accountant. Sherlock looked at them, approached the postman, and grabbed him: “I will arrest you for killing this woman.” It was really the postman who killed this woman, but how could Holmes know it?

Bill shot the man, but was not punished. Why?

A woman - at work - is going downstairs, when suddenly there is a blackout. In that very moment she realizes that her husband is about to die.

A couple find a man's corpse on the beach. The corpse is under an umbrella and has a knife on his back. There are no signs of violence and no traces of blood. The autopsy reveals that the man died of natural causes.

John was walking along the snow-covered field. When he came to a lonely tree, he saw the corpse of a man hanging on the tree. He died the last night from strangulation, but there were no traces around him, except John's ones.

Roger sees the light and he becomes paralyzed. Soon after that he dies.

A woman is looking through the window and sees a man with a knife. However, she does not have enough time to call the police before being murdered.

A man kills his brother in front of a crowd of people. However, no one reports him.

After careful planning, five men break into a house and take thousands of dollars in cash from it. The owner of the house is the only person arrested.

A mother-in-law disliked her son-in-law so much that she wanted to poison him. But the son-in-law was careful and always ate only what his mother-in-law ate. Over dinner one night, the mother-in-law cut a piece of meat in half, ate one half herself, and gave the other to her son-in-law. After that he died. How did she manage to do it?

There are a man and his son in a car. The car crashes and the father dies. When the ambulance takes the son to the hospital, the surgeon says:" I can't do the surgery, because he is my son". How can that be possible?

A woman is found dead in a hospital. The murder weapon is a pair of scissors. However, the body has no cuts ot wounds of any kind.