5 Minute Mysteries About Murders

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?

A man goes into a restaurant, orders albatross, eats one bite, and kills himself. Why?

A couple of dancers die around a dance competition.

A man woke up, lit a match and saw something that frightened him to death.

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.

A man lies dead next to a feather. How did he die?

The girl’s mother died. The girl was burying her, and at the funeral she saw the man of her dreams and fell in love with him. 14 days later, she killed her sister. Why did she do that?

Silence fell, and after a few moments she died.

A man is found hanging in an otherwise empty locked room with a puddle of water under his feet.

A man stole a wallet. This caused his death. What happened?

A naked man is lying dead in the middle of a desert with a match in his hand. What happened? A man is found dead in a desert. He is naked, and lots of clothes are scattered around him, among other things. There is a match in his hand. How did he die?

Paul comes home tired. He goes to his room and turns off the light to sleep. After a while, feeling uneasy, he turns on the light and looks around. He turns the light back off and tries to sleep again. After repeating this several times, he takes a look under his bed and finds a dead body.