Detective Murder Mystery Puzzles with Answers

From my childhood, I was very fascinated by detectives and their work. Even on TV to date, my favorite serial has been of detectives investigating murder mysteries. It is very much fun for me to wear detective shoes and solve murder mystery puzzles. Here I am giving you a chance to be in the detective's shoes and solve many of the murder mysteries. 

Here many different murder mysteries are given which are investigated by famous detective Sherlock Holmes. He was successfully able to solve all of these murder mysteries with logic and carefully doing an examination of the clues. While solving these murder mystery puzzles, you have to wear Sherlock Holmes shoes and try to think like him. Let us see how many of these murder mysteries, you can solve without looking at the answers. 

Answers link to these Murder Mystery Puzzles is given at the end of this post. Do post your answers in the comment box of this post.

1. It was the first day in the school when a student is found murdered. There were 4 suspected of this murder. Detective Sherlock Holmes calls each of the suspects separately and asks each of them what they were doing during the time of the murder. Below is the reply of each of them.

Math Teacher: I was in my room giving grades.

Sweeper: I was cleaning the room

Dean: I was in my room all day.

Peon: I was collecting the mails.

If you were a detective then to who you will instruct the police to arrest?

2. A man Tom has been killed in his home and detective Sherlock Homes zeros on four suspects who were near to the victim during the time of the murder. Below are the name and information of each of  these suspects

James: Tom's best friend

Dereb: Tom's driver

Zalak: Tom's maid

Harry: Tom's Cook

A note is found near Tom's body and the following is written on the note.

1st of December, 2nd of February, 3rd of March, 4th of June, 5th of October  

Detective Sherlock Holmes, investigating this case studies this note carefully and immediately arrests one of the four suspects. If you were the detective, to whom will arrest?

3. A Woman murdered on Sunday morning at her home. There are five suspects. Detective Sherlock Holmes calls each of the suspects in turn and asks what he/she was doing when this murder happened.

Below are the statements from each of the suspect

Husband: I was watching TV.

Butler: I was cleaning the closet.

Cook: I was preparing breakfast.

Maid: I was getting mails.

Gardener: I was picking vegetables.

Detective Sherlock Holmes immediately orders the police to arrest one of the suspects after listening to the statements. If we're at the place of Sherlock Holmes, to who will you arrest and why?

4. Dead Body of a man lies on the floor with blood oozing out of his head. The dead man has a gun in his hand and a tape recorder on the side of the body. Detective Sherlock Holmes who is Investigator, in this case, plays the tape and the message is

"I am tired of my life and so decided to relieve myself from worldly pains and gunshot"

Detective Sherlock Holmes immediately declares that this is a Murder and no suicide. Why?

5. A couple went on a climbing trip. But only the husband Tom returned from the vacation and said that his wife slipped off while climbing and died. On investigating this case detective Sherlock Holmes arrested him saying, 'Your travel agent called. You murdered your wife.'

The man did not inform anyone about the trip. Then how did the agent was so sure that it is a murder?

6. A lady is found dead in her room with the poison bottle lying beside her body. Initial investigation suggests that she has committed suicide as traces of poison were found in her blood. However, detective Sherlock Holmes was called to investigate this case. On arriving at the room Sherlock Holmes examined the room very carefully and his finds tickets for her air travel for the evening same day and her suitcase packed in her room. He immediately declares that this is a murder case. Why?

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Here is the answer to the 4th Brain Teaser Question of the post titled "Out of Box Thinking Fun Brain Teasers with answers to Challenge your Mind ".

I have hidden this answer to avoid any spoiler. Do select the text below to read the answer.  
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We have to find A-B=?
The answer to this series is Square of A - Square Root of B
So 6-25 = 36 - 5 = 31
and 3 - 81 = 9 - 9 = 0

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