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Two-Minute Mysteries
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Donald J. Sobol's less well-known "adult" Encyclopedia Brown series. It centered around Dr. Haledjian, a criminologist, who solved cases stumping the police by finding a mere inconsistency. The series consisted of three books:Two-Minute Mysteries (1967) — 79 mysteries "The Case of..." "the Angry Chef", "the Attempted Murder", "the Attic Suicide", "the Balloon Man", "the Bamboo Fence", "the Big Deal", "the Bitter Drink", "the Blackmailer", "the Bogus Robbery", "the Broken Arm", "the Bronze Nymph", "the Bumped Head", "the Buried Treasure", "the Cave Paintings", "the Dead Boxer", "the Coin Collector", "the Dead Broker", "the Dead Frenchman", "the Dead Judge", "the Dead Millionaire", "the Dead Professor", "the Death at Sunrise", "the Death Plunge", "the Dentist's Patient", "Flawless Phil", "the Footprint", "Freddie the Forger", "the French Vineyard", "the Green Pen", "the Haunted House", "the Hero Dog", "the Hidden Diamond", "the Hitchhiker", "the Home Bakery", "the Hotel Murder", "the Hunting Accident", "the Indian Jug", "the Indian Trader", "the Last Moreno", "the Lazy Murderer", "the Locked Room", "the Lookout", "the Lost City", "the Maestro's Choice", "the Missing Button", "the Molly's Mule", "the Murder at the Zoo", "the Murder Before the Concert", "the Murdered Camper", "the Murdered Skier", "the Murdered Wife", "the Murdering Rival", "the Musical Thief", "Newton the Knife ", "the Office Shooting", "the Open Door", "the Orange Bird", "the Overheard Killer", "the Parked Car", "the Payroll Truck", "the Phantom Killer", "the Phony Financier", "the Post Office Box", "the Puzzled Hairdresser", "the Racketeer's Death", "the Reluctant Witness", "the Rescue at Sea", "the Sealed Room", "the Shattered Door", "the Stamp Collector", "the Sticky Brush", "the Stolen Rubens", "the Suicide Room", "the Telltale Clock", "the Unused Seat Belt", "the Warehouse Murder", "the Whispering Finger", "the Willie the Whisp", "the Wooden Bridge". More Two-Minute Mysteries (1971) — 63 mysteries "The Case of..." "the Airport Killing", "the Anxious Nephew", "the Arctic Hero", "the Book Contract", "the Bottle of Cyanide", "the Bullet in the Back", "the Confederate Half-Dollar", "the Department Store Murder", "the Double Blowout", "the Dying Brazilian", "the Escobi Sapphire", "the Fashion Cameraman", "the Fast Traveler", "the Fatal Slip", "the Health Formula", "the Horseshoe Pitcher", "the Hot Tip", "the Jade Monkey", "the Lady Larruper", "the Lincoln Letter", "the Locked Wine Cellar", "the Lost Spectacles", "the Lost Stamp", "the Marathon Runner", "the Million-to-One Shot", "the Missing Fingerprints", "the Model Universe", "the Mugged Secretary", "the Murdered Uncle", "the Mysterious Groceries", "the Olympic Athlete", "the Petite Wife", "the Phony Fight", "the Pirated Yacht", "the Poisoned Mice", "the Power Failure", "the Provoked Assault", "the Purse Snatcher", "the Racetrack Murder", "the Railroad Robbery", "the Reversed Faucets", "the Screaming Cat", "the Second Will", "the Silk Mantle", "the Sleeping Deer", "the Slip of Paper", "the Speeding Train", "the Spilled Brandy", "the Stolen Bible", "the Stolen Painting", "the Tardy Witness", "the Theft at the Circus", "the 13 Roses", "the Three Cucumbers", "the Timely Neigh", "the Treasure Map", "the Two Bank Robbers", "the Two Mrs. Brauns", "the Unknown Blonde", "the Unknown Brother", "the Vanishing Hostage", "the Water Nymph", "the World Traveler".Still More Two-Minute Mysteries (1975) — 63 mysteries "The Case of..." "the Arctic Explorer", "the Arrowless Bow", "the Barbecue Murder", "the Bathing Beauty", "the Big Dipper", "the Birdwatcher", "the Black Hat", "the Bushwhackers", "the Body by the Garage", "the Bogus Hero", "the Bomb Thrower", "the Civil War Saber", "the Dead Man's Medals", "the Dead Recluse", "the Death by the Tracks", "the Death in the Air", "the Doubting Uncle", "the Dowager's Jewels", "the Dropped Cuff Link", "the Edmund Bayne", "the Fatal Oversight", "the Five Candidates", "the Football Players", "the Four-Footed Sleuth", "the Frightened Playboy", "the Frozen Suspect", "the Gas Station Murder", "the Gasping Partner", "the Gold Brick", "the Happy Baby", "the Hidden Money", "the Impoverished Artist", "the Initialed Tie Clasp", "the Italian Grocer", "the Italian Sports Car", "the Kidnapped Brother", "the Killer Dog", "the Lakeside Murder", "the Lobster Joint", "the Manufacturer's Clothes", "the Missing Model", "the Mistaken Shot", "the Mona Lisa", "the Murdered Vocalist", "the Nature Lover", "the New Year's Eve Murder", "the Old-Fashioned Pen", "the Overheard Gunshot", "the Parked Car", "the Phony Cop", "the Phony Crash", "the Poisoned Drink", "the Pudgy Playboy", "the Railroad Crash", "the Shot in the Back", "the Silver Bowl", "the Silver Pen", "the Spinning Eggs", "the Stolen Pesos", "the Stranded Blonde", "the Stunned Nephew", "the Suicide Note", "the Uneasy Squirrel".The series was reissued in 2007 in an omnibus edition, Two Minute Mysteries Collection. | |
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This Bear Was Framed | |
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This Bear Was Framed: The plot of book 3's "The Case of the Killer Dog" involves a murderer killing an old man and then framing the old man's dog for the crime. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: In general, if a teen is accused of a crime in one of these, he or she is guaranteed to be guilty. The sole exception is "The Case of the Missing Button", and of course the criminal in that one turned out to be a different teen. | |
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All Balloons Have Helium | |
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All Balloons Have Helium: Invoked in "The Case of the Balloon Man" as part of the kidnapper's alibi. Sam Potts claims that, while he was taking down one of Izzy the Balloon Man's balloons that had become stuck a tree in his backyard, he saw Izzy kidnapping a neighbor's child. Haledjian — already knowing that Izzy blows his balloons up by mouth, and that there wasn't a wind that day to put the balloon there — immediately spots the lie. | |
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Secret Test of Character | |
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Secret Test of Character: "The Case of the Doubting Uncle" has the last wishes of a dead rich man stating that his money is to be divided equally between his nephew and alma matter in four days. He secretly entrusted the money with Dr. Haledjian while arranging for him to monitor whether the nephew would try to break into the safe to steal all of the money. If he didn't, then the nephew was to get his half of the money, otherwise he'd forfeit it to the alma matter. | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison | |
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I Never Said It Was Poison: They never said the doctor working on the murder victim when they were shot was a dentist. Or that the murder weapon was used for a severe case of Pistol-Whipping instead of shooting. | |
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The Case of... | |
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The Case of...: Appears at the start of every story's title. | |
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Conviction by Counterfactual Clue | |
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Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: Again, very common (spoilers ahead): The classic "mules cannot have offspring" clue was used in "The Case of Molly's Mule." "The Case of the Whispering Finger" had a deaf witness's testimony that he read the suspect's lips and took special note of it because the suspect was whispering called into question, because supposedly, he shouldn't have been able to tell the suspect was whispering. However, whispering is just when instead of using your vocal cords normally, you create turbulence with them, producing a hissing sound. This then requires you to use your lips and mouth to create sounds that your vocal cords normally would, and is very noticeable to a lip reader. You can easily demonstrate this by saying the same word as a whisper and in normal voice, and feel how different your mouth moves. Then try freezing your jaw and lips in place and speaking, something you can do mostly understandably with operating your vocal cords normally, but you can't produce meaningful sounds at all if you try it while whispering. This clue was later reused in "The Case of the Mistaken Shot". In "The Case of the Dropped Cuff Link", a man relates how he leaned over his train bunk and read a headline on the newspaper the man below him was apparently reading. His companion deduced that the man with the newspaper was the perpetrator, because the only way the first man could have read the headline is if the newspaper was held upside-down (and therefore upside-up, relatively speaking, to the first man's eyes.) However, many people can read upside-down text just fine, especially if the text is in a large font and the message short—for example, the text of a headline, or the reader is even mildly dyslexic. Even without any skill at it, everyone who can read can decipher upside-down print letter by letter. It may take a few minutes, but what's time to someone sitting bored in a train? Or even easier, if the top half of the paper is folded back while the man reads the bottom. In "The Case of the Murder at the Zoo", Haledjian meets with a zookeeper after a doorman working at the zoo is found killed. The zookeeper claims to have been alerted to the murder when he heard the scream of a giraffe, since one of them had been caught in the crossfire. Instantly Haledjian declares him to be the real murderer, because according to him, giraffes have no vocal cords. In "The Case of the Impoverished Artist", a man's death is taken not to be suicide because he had recently suffered a heart attack, so a salt shaker on his table would mean another person was present, since the man himself would not be adding any to his food. A man intending to take his life could easily have ignored health concerns. In addition, couldn't he have just left it on there and never used it? A downplayed example in "The Case of the Poisoned Mice". Haledjian realizes that a mouse breeder's assistant is accidentally killing the prize mice by feeding them cheese, which "overheats their blood"; bizarre euphemism for dehydration / illness aside, cheese also isn't healthy for mice as a meal or treat because it's mostly empty calories to them and can't be properly digested. Even if Freddie's mice hadn't exhibited diarrhea, nausea, and erratic behavior, they would've been getting extremely overweight and unfit for mouse shows or stud breeding, and Reeves' incompetence would've been easily spotted before Haledjian investigated. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: "The Case of Willie the Wisp" is a variant of the classic "bicycle smuggling" urban legend. | |
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Work Info Title: The short length of the stories is in the title Two-Minute Mysteries. | |
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You No Take Candle | |
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You No Take Candle: The hermit in "The Case of the Footprint" grunts "no kill man" while being held on suspicion of murder. Bizarrely, he is confirmed to have periodic human contact in spite of talking like this, as he not only earns a subsistence hunting and fishing, but recently bought a new pair of shoes. | |
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Infraction Distraction | |
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Infraction Distraction: In "The Case of Willie the Wisp", Count Schwinn, head of customs in France, comes in and tells Dr. Haledjian that a notorious criminal with a long history of successful smuggling has been regularly passing customs. He tools up in a shiny high-end car, and when it's searched, everything's fine except the false bottoms in his luggage, which contain three jars, containing molasses, ground oyster shells, and bits of colored glass. It's perfectly legal to have those, so they let him through. But the official knows he's smuggling something. Dr. Haledjian sits, smokes a bit, and realizes exactly what's being smuggled — the high-end car. | |
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Grande Dame | |
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Grande Dame: Mrs. Sydney is variously described as the wealthiest woman in New York, reputed to own over 8% of the city and "more of Manhattan Island than anyone save the Indians", and a dowager at the top of society circles who throws lavish and illustrious parties. Her motivations for presenting false mysteries aren't just mischief and intellectual curiosity, but also because tricking the great Dr. Haledjian is something money can't buy, and she can't resist matching wits with him.note While her age is never brought up, her status, her behavior, and the scenario she lays out in "The Case of the Unknown Brother" — having a 'childhood playmate' who died some time ago at 65 — all suggest she's pretty old. | |
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The Informant | |
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The Informant: Subverted with Nick the Nose; he wants to be seen as an example of this trope, clearly, but all he does is try to pass off phony leads as genuine whenever word's out that the police are offering rewards, and the discrepancies in his stories always tip them off that he's lying. As a result, instead of being "tolerated", he's a nuisance typically escorted from the precinct with a shoe to his pants (see Literal Ass-Kicking below). | |
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Detective Patsy | |
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Detective Patsy: Quite a few people bring Haledjian along as a witness while pretending to "discover" the body of someone they murdered, or while trying to commit Insurance Fraud. They invariably end up exposed within minutes, if not seconds, of doing so. | |
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Laborious Laziness | |
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Laborious Laziness: Bertie Tilford is almost always mentioned as hating work and avoiding it at every opportunity, but the lengths he seems to go to just to pursue promises of easy money shows that he's certainly not opposed to effort. | |
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Casanova Wannabe | |
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Casanova Wannabe: Poor Cyril Makin, who has the distinct misfortune of only wooing ladies with very proud lineages in something or other (Civil War ancestry, horse breeding, Arctic exploration, etc.), and won't look twice at a man without a similar family history. Whenever he tries to concoct a phony background to impress a girl, it invariably blows up in his face. | |
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The Rat | |
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The Rat: Nick the Nose. He'd sell out anyone for cash -it's good that he sucks at the information-gathering part of squealing. | |
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Tan Lines | |
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Tan Lines: "The Case of the Big Deal" concerns a modern-day prospector who's struck a vein after seven months of digging, and is trying to interest Haledjian in financing a mine; Haledjian points out that if he hadn't shaved in all that time, as he claims, then his face wouldn't have had an even tan after he had his beard trimmed. (Borders on Conviction by Contradiction, as anyone in that situation would probably use bronzer afterward to avoid looking ridiculous.) | |
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Literal Ass-Kicking | |
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Literal Ass-Kicking: It's implied Inspector Winters does this with Nick the Nose at times. | |
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Fake Mystery | |
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Fake Mystery: Any case where Mrs. Sydney is involved will center around her staging a bogus crime or thought experiment for the purpose of confounding Haledjian. Since he's always her willing houseguest at the time, it comes off as more playful than malicious, especially since she never manages to stump him. | |
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Schemer | |
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Schemer: Bertie Tilford, a chronically work-shy Englishman that never met a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme he didn't like and is constantly trying to hit up Haledjian for investment capital, only for the Doctor to detect the flaw or mistruth in his pitch and turn him down. Interestingly, Bertie doesn't qualify as a Con Man himself, as he's always being duped into the schemes of others, making him criminally naive rather than a naive criminal (unless he's secretly using Haledjian to find out if the offers are legit, that is). | |
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Only One Finds It Fun | |
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Only One Finds It Fun: Any cases with Octavia feature Haledjian being very delighted at having a chance to regale her with his latest mystery, and her wishing aloud that the waiter would arrive faster, with the exception of "The Case of the Four-Footed Sleuth". | |
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Reed Snorkel | |
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Reed Snorkel: "The Case of the Bamboo Fence" features a trail guide telling the story of an Old West doctor who tried to help an innocent hunted man this way; after giving him a six-foot length of bamboo the width of a quarter, Doc Holloway misdirected the posse and saved Jim from getting hung, only for Jim to "drown" anyway. Haledjian reasons that the Doc secretly thought he was guilty and did it to kill him, knowing Jim soon wouldn't be able to breathe. | |
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Never Suicide | |
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Never Suicide: If a body is ever discovered in circumstances that so much as suggest the person killed themselves, you can bet that they didn't. Even "The Case of the Suicide Room", about a mysterious bottomless room in a Welsh castle that has developed a legend about a curse that makes young men jump to their deaths there, doesn't feature a genuine suicide. | |
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Bad Habits | |
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Bad Habits: Figure into "The Case of the Lookout", where Haledjian realizes the "nun" with him at the drugstore across the street from a bank robbery was the gang's lookout, stalling for time and keeping him occupied. | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
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Disguised in Drag: The "solution" to one case is Haledjian reassuring a cab driver that the female customer who mugged him was probably a man in drag. | |
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Snake Oil Salesman | |
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Snake Oil Salesman: "The Case of the Indian Trader" has a tour guide recount the story of Doc Henry, who sold his wares "only to them Injuns", supposedly confessed on his deathbed that his elixir was nothing but sugar water, and bartered his wares in exchange for a young woman's life after she was kidnapped by a drunk war party. Based on how Doc's bottles didn't break after "five days of sub-freezin' weather", Haledjian notes that he was probably selling them hard alcohol and was the reason they were getting drunk in the first place. | |
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No Full Name Given: Whatever Haledjian's first name is, if any, the reader never finds out. Octavia, Haledjian's "fair dinner companion," similarly lacks a surname. | |
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Varying Competency Alibi | |
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Varying Competency Alibi: One of the Still More Two-Minute Mysteries involves Dr Haledjian judging a death accidental because "only a master murderer could have staged such a scene." The victim died of poisoning from the gas jet on her stove, but only one jet was on, and there was an untouched pocketbook on the couch containing several hundred dollars. Only someone with considerable motive and experience would be so careful to Make It Look Like an Accident. | |
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