The simplest solution is the best one, so get cracking.
Name the ultimate puzzler from fiction. If you didn’t say Sherlock Holmes, then I need to read what you’re reading. In many depictions, Holmes seems to care about nothing other than the puzzles his cases pose. Beyond the twisty plots and endearing characters, Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories and the subsequent screen adaptations excel at clever mechanisms and deductions. This week you’ll slip into Sherlock’s deerstalker and solve two whodunits.
“She’s wearing a wedding band. It’s always the husband.” Meanswell had an eager retort, as though he had practiced: “That was my first thought too. In fact, her kids and neighbors report that they’ve had extreme marital trouble and Mr. Howe has been violent in the past. However, he has an airtight alibi.” “Seldom such a thing,” smirked Sherlock. “Mr. Howe works at an automotive factory an hour and a half drive away.
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