Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Detective Circumstantial

As is our New Year tradition, we saw the first movie of the day this morning. Knives Out came highly recommended and it was an enjoyable, twisty, little mannered murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie and Clue. We didn't leave the detecting behind in the theater, either.

Later in the day, as we were walking around the Tidal Basin, I came upon a huge broken piece of heavy cast iron. It appeared to be the base of a column, and scanning the area, I saw that the bottom of one of the decorative light poles lining the road was shattered. It was a good thirty feet from us, and so the impact that tossed the base, which itself must have weighed 100 pounds, must have been very great.

"Wow!" I said to Heidi. "Whoever hit that pole must have been going really fast!" I pointed to the road and the grass, shaking my head as we continued on our way. A few steps ahead, we found an empty champagne bottle. "He was probably drinking this!" I deduced. And next there was a perfectly knotted silk necktie, also in the grass "And here's his tie!"

Not surprisingly? We got back to our car before the case was solved.

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