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How Holmes solved "the Mystery of the Margate M...
Dear detectives, Thank you to the many of you that wrote in by mail and at Dearholmes.com/solve with your questions and solutions to last month’s mystery, "the Mystery of the...
How Holmes solved "the Mystery of the Margate M...
Dear detectives, Thank you to the many of you that wrote in by mail and at Dearholmes.com/solve with your questions and solutions to last month’s mystery, "the Mystery of the...

Mystery Monday: A Vile Visitation
A seemingly ordinary Georgia couple meets a grisly and undeserved end at the hand of an unannounced visitor in this 1879 unsolved murder. Very little has been written about the...
Mystery Monday: A Vile Visitation
A seemingly ordinary Georgia couple meets a grisly and undeserved end at the hand of an unannounced visitor in this 1879 unsolved murder. Very little has been written about the...

Introducing Your New Featured Detective
Each mystery, dozens of detectives send in letters with questions, theories, new evidence, and solutions. After each mystery, we reward the detective who sends in the best solution with a special prize...
Introducing Your New Featured Detective
Each mystery, dozens of detectives send in letters with questions, theories, new evidence, and solutions. After each mystery, we reward the detective who sends in the best solution with a special prize...

Mystery Monday: The 1841 Hudson River Homicide
Very few unsolved murders have received media and popular culture treatment quite like that received by the murder of New York’s Mary Rogers, a woman whose slaying was so famous...
Mystery Monday: The 1841 Hudson River Homicide
Very few unsolved murders have received media and popular culture treatment quite like that received by the murder of New York’s Mary Rogers, a woman whose slaying was so famous...

Mystery Monday: A Preacher's Peril
A lone preacher, a vast wilderness, and a mining boom town mix to fatal effect in this 1876 unsolved homicide. While much attention has been paid to the California Gold...
Mystery Monday: A Preacher's Peril
A lone preacher, a vast wilderness, and a mining boom town mix to fatal effect in this 1876 unsolved homicide. While much attention has been paid to the California Gold...

Solving "the Mystery of the Sporting Spiritualist"
Dearest detectives, Thank you to the many of you that wrote in by mail and at Dearholmes.com/solve with your questions and solutions to last month’s mystery, “the Mystery of the...
Solving "the Mystery of the Sporting Spiritualist"
Dearest detectives, Thank you to the many of you that wrote in by mail and at Dearholmes.com/solve with your questions and solutions to last month’s mystery, “the Mystery of the...