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Mystery Monday: The 1841 Hudson River Homicide

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

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"

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...

Your Newest Featured Detective Is...

Your Newest Featured Detective Is...

The Featured Detective Program 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...

Your Newest Featured Detective Is...

The Featured Detective Program 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...

Solving "the Problem of the Princess's Necklace"

Solving "the Problem of the Princess's Necklace"

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 Problem of the...

Solving "the Problem of the Princess's Necklace"

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 Problem of the...

An Update on the 4th letter of "The Problem of the Princess's Necklace"

An Update on the 4th letter of "The Problem of ...

Dear detectives, Some of you have written in about an incomplete line on some copies of the 4th letter of our latest mystery. We’ve isolated the problem and found the...

An Update on the 4th letter of "The Problem of ...

Dear detectives, Some of you have written in about an incomplete line on some copies of the 4th letter of our latest mystery. We’ve isolated the problem and found the...