In honour of National Short Story Week, I’ve collated all the twisteries written so far. A round dozen:
Twistery #1.
The locked room was empty apart from the smell of decomposition. They ripped up the boards to find a corpse clutching a strong magnet.
Twistery #2.
It looked like suicide: both hands on the gun, the barrel in his mouth, head blown apart. Something about the face proved it was murder.
Twistery #3.
There was sawdust around the body. The only footprints belonged to the dead man. Who stabbed him and how did they get away?
Twistery #4.
The dead man held an empty envelope. According to hearsay, the police found 20 identical letters on or around the corpse.
Twistery #5.
The killer gave himself away by removing a small piece of flesh from beneath the victims’ noses. It was as good as a confession.
Twistery #6.
The murderer sent Dalgliesh an orange. The famous detective immediately knew where to look for the body.
Twistery #7.
He was shot in a supermarket. CCTV showed only 1 possible suspect, Bashmachkin. But he had both hands on his trolley, no gun in sight.
Twistery #8.
The carpenter and the potter had an explosive relationship; fatally so after he gave her one of his old aprons.
Twistery #9.
His wife was next door when he was killed. A blow to the head; bloody marble bust nearby. Neighbours heard Mahler 8.
Twistery #10.
“As you lived, so shall you die.” The death threat to the writer was baffling. The choice of murder weapon unravelled the mystery.
Twistery #11.
No other vehicle was involved when he drove his car over the cliff. But a jar lid was found in the engine wreckage.
Twistery #12.
When the police recovered 100 incomplete packs of playing cards from his house, they knew they had their man.
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