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* DyingClue: In "The Witch of Park Avenue", a man who is dying trapped inside a revolving door knows he only has seconds to live and writes the name "MARIE" on the glass with a felt tip pen. Although this seems to implicate a woman named Marie who is involved in the case [[spoiler:Simon determines that the victim and Marie had never met, so he could not have known her name, nor would she have reason to kill him. The actual killer was Dr. Langstrom, who had just married the eponymous witch. Langstrom's name was too long for him to write in the time he had left, so he tried to leave a short word that would nonetheless implicate Langstrom. However, while dying, he instinctively reverted to his native language, French, and wrote "marie", the French for "bridegroom".]]

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* DyingClue: In "The Witch of Park Avenue", a man who is dying trapped inside a revolving door knows he only has seconds to live and writes the name "MARIE" on the glass with a felt tip pen. Although this seems to implicate a woman named Marie who is involved in the case [[spoiler:Simon determines that the victim and Marie had never met, so he could not have known her name, nor would she have reason to kill him. The actual killer was Dr. Langstrom, who had just married the eponymous witch. Langstrom's name was too long for him to write in the time he had left, so he tried to leave a short word that would nonetheless implicate Langstrom. However, while dying, he instinctively reverted to his native language, French, and wrote "marie", "marié", the French for "bridegroom".]]
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* DismantledMacGuffin: In "The Treasure of Jack the Ripper", it is revealed that the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders were a cover for the murder of five specific prostitutes: the mutilation of the bodies being designed to hide the theft of a patch of skin from each of the victims. Placed together, [[HumanNotepad these tattoos form]] a TreasureMap.

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* ManOnFire: In "The Witch is Dead", Mother Fortune is found burned to death [[LockedRoomMystery inside her locked trailer with nothing else touched]]. SpontaneousHumanCombustion is suspected, but it is actually murder.



* WomanOnFire: In "The Witch is Dead", Mother Fortune is found burned to death [[LockedRoomMystery inside her locked trailer with nothing else touched]]. SpontaneousHumanCombustion is suspected, but it is actually murder.
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* AnachronisticClue: In the short story "The Weapon Out of the Past", Simon identifies a diary supposedly written during the UsefulNotes/FreanchAndIndianWar as a forgery because it uses the word "silhouette", an eponym not coined at the time.

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* AnachronisticClue: In the short story "The Weapon Out of the Past", Simon identifies a diary supposedly written during the UsefulNotes/FreanchAndIndianWar UsefulNotes/FrenchAndIndianWar as a forgery because it uses the word "silhouette", an eponym not coined at the time.

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* AnachronisticClue: In the short story "The Weapon Out of the Past", Simon identifies a diary supposedly written during the American Revolution as a forgery because it uses the word "silhouette", an eponym not coined at the time.

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* AnachronisticClue: In the short story "The Weapon Out of the Past", Simon identifies a diary supposedly written during the American Revolution UsefulNotes/FreanchAndIndianWar as a forgery because it uses the word "silhouette", an eponym not coined at the time.


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* WarReenactors: In "The Weapon Out of the Past", a small town stages a reenactment of a minor battle of the UsefulNotes/FrenchAndIndianWar: the most significant event to ever happen in the town. During the event, one of the reenactors is killed with a weapon seemingly launched 200 years earlier.

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* ADeadlyAffair: The motive for murder in "The Man Who Shot the Werewolf" turns out to be a high profile politician discovering that his wife was having an affair with a much younger man. The werewolf story was something that the politician, an experienced hunter, concocted as part of an elaborate double-bluff cover-up.

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The motive for murder in "The Man Who Shot the Werewolf" turns out to be a high profile politician discovering that his wife was having an affair with a much younger man. The werewolf story was something that the politician, an experienced hunter, concocted as part of an elaborate double-bluff cover-up.cover-up.
** In "The Weapon out of the Past", one half of an adulterous couple decides to murder the wife of her lover and make it appear to be supernatural.
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* BeneathSuspicion: In "The Dying Marabout", the murderer turns to be [[spoiler:the marabout's tall, bald servant. As Simon explains during TheSummation, the murderer had to have been someone present at the monastery before the invitations were sent out, which was only the marabout and his three servants. The marabout was murdered and of the servants, only one of them was tall enough to have impersonated him.]]
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* ADeadlyAffair: The motive for murder in "The Man Who Shot the Werewolf" turns out to be a high profile politician discovering that his wife was having an affair with a much younger man. The werewolf story was nothing that the politician, an experienced hunter, concocted as part of an elaborate double-bluff cover-up.

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* ADeadlyAffair: The motive for murder in "The Man Who Shot the Werewolf" turns out to be a high profile politician discovering that his wife was having an affair with a much younger man. The werewolf story was nothing something that the politician, an experienced hunter, concocted as part of an elaborate double-bluff cover-up.

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