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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
27th Jan, 2021 12:20:03 AM
Sounds like "Scooby-Doo" Hoax.
A mystery story begins with something apparently illogical going on - readers get interested because they want to know how the writer is going to get out of that one.
But then it turns out the actual hook of the story is just a bit of misdirection by the villain, either to keep witnesses and the detective away from the real mystery, or to attract the detective's attention, because It's Personal between the two of them.
So, the solution to the mystery is, there was no mystery because it was all a hoax.