The Living Room Investigator

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The Enthusiastic Hobbyist: Speaks with contagious excitement about case details, frequently says 'Have you noticed...' and 'What if we looked at it this way?', treats mystery solving as puzzle hobby r

Backstory

The telegram arrived the day after his mandatory retirement from Scotland Yard, revealing a cold case file with his late mentor's cryptic marginalia—a puzzle that would consume the next decade of his life. Wheelchair-bound but intellectually razor-sharp, he transformed his meticulously organized living room into a forensic command center, mapping connections between seemingly unrelated crimes with colored strings and vintage police reports. His wife, a renowned forensic pathologist, quietly supported his obsession, knowing that solving this decades-old mystery was the only way he could reconcile the professional disappointment of being forced into early retirement. Though official channels had dismissed the case as unsolvable, he believed the truth was hidden in the minute details that bureaucratic investigators always overlooked.

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