A riddle for you!
By lenywp
@lenywp (1963)
Australia
March 24, 2007 7:35am CST
"It was a very large, fancy hotel." The hotel detective was making his rounds, walking in the hallway...when suddenly - he heard a woman cry: "Please! Don't shoot me Steve!" and a shot rang out!
The detective ran as fast as he could to the room the shot came from, and pushed his way in. The body of the woman who'd been shot lay in the corner of the room; the gun that had been used to shoot her lay on the floor beside her.
On the opposite side of the room stood a postman, an accountant and a lawyer.
For a moment, the detective hesitated and looked at them. Then he strode up to the postman and said - "You're under arrest for murder"!!!
There was no other evidence and the detective made the right choice.
HOW DID HE KNOW?
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13 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
24 Mar 07
She called out his name, Please, don't shoot me Steve.
So, that is how he knew. Am I right?
I gave up another + rating, this was excellent. Thank you.
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@neoserver (45)
• Philippines
24 Mar 07
How did he know , Is the answer the woman could have a personal Accountant and a lawyer but not her own personal postman, and he would not be delivering post to a room in a hotel
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
23 Feb 08
But the detective won't be able to tell the occupation of the three guys just by first impression, wouldn't it?
@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
7 Apr 07
thats what I was thinking, te postman was wearing a name tag that said Steve.
@yashaggr (40)
• India
4 Mar 08
yea the detective made the righ choice because out of the three the most likely story will be.
the lady is making herf will with the lawyer and the acountant is helping her do so.
the postman becoumes enraged aqs he served her a lot but she douesnt leave anything to heim and he there for shoots her.
SIMPLE
@dopey22girl (3319)
• United States
9 Apr 07
First of all I would like to say I love doing riddles, so thank you for posting this and please post more! Secondly, this one is kind of difficult to solve. The only thing that I can think of, and I think I have a pretty good chance of being right, is that the postman is the only one of the 3 who has to wear a nametag, so he knew that it was Steve. Am I right?
@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
9 Apr 07
I am bad at riddles so I confess I scrolled down to see what the answer was. The nametag idea seems to be the answer to me, as well.
@demonicprince03 (9)
• Philippines
24 Mar 07
Because the woman said STEVES's name so the detective arrested him
@gerald_lian (2188)
• Australia
23 Feb 08
Maybe the other two who didn't kill the woman was pointing at the killer? =P
