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.

Solution here.

 

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.

Solution here.

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?

Solution here.

Twistery #4.

The dead man held an empty envelope. According to hearsay, the police found 20 identical letters on or around the corpse.

Solution here.

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.

Solution here.

 

Twistery #6.

The murderer sent Dalgliesh an orange. The famous detective immediately knew where to look for the body.

Solution here.

 

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.

Solution here.

 

Twistery #8.

The carpenter and the potter had an explosive relationship; fatally so after he gave her one of his old aprons.

Solution here.

 

Twistery #9.

His wife was next door when he was killed. A blow to the head; bloody marble bust nearby. Neighbours heard Mahler 8.

Solution here.

 

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.

Solution here.

 

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.

Solution here.

 

Twistery #12.

When the police recovered 100 incomplete packs of playing cards from his house, they knew they had their man.

Solution here.