50wordstories.ca » prints https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 The Gun in the Drawer III https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=207 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=207#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:58:42 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=207 The prints were confirmed authentic.  Everyone handled the gun at one point or another.

Ballistics confirmed that that gun had shot them all.  However, the gun itself had never been fired.

It was also proven that the drawer hadn’t been opened for fifty years.

The victims were all under fifty.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=207 0 The Gun in the Drawer II https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=197 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=197#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:00:50 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=197 It was the ultimate closed-room mystery!

Everyone was found dead, with no trace of violence, poison, or disease.

A gun was found in a drawer, but it was proved conclusively that it had never been fired.

The authorities were baffled to no end: the gun had everyone’s prints all over!

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