>> - looking at the victim, how hard is it to choose between poison, rope, gun, and knife, especially given that it can be deduced that the body wasn’t moved?

>> - looking at the victim, how hard is it to choose between poison, rope, gun, and knife, especially given that it can be deduced that the body wasn’t moved? > I'm not completely sure what you mean here. They found the victim, figured out the body wasn’t moved, but managed to do so without noticing the gunshot wound, so they can’t rule out poison, cutting their throat, or strangulation? Technically, there could be two would-be killers, with the one using the gun shooting an already dead victim, or killing the victim minutes before the poison would have, or one killer doubting the poison worked, and making sure with a knife, but the presentation makes me think we can rule out such cases. Now I think of it: poison typically takes some time to take effect, so if the cause is poison, the killer need not have been near the victim at the time of death. If it’s a gun and that was used as a gun (and not to club her to death, for example), wouldn’t everybody have heard the gun shot in such a small house? That works in Cluedo and Agatha Christie stories, but those typically are set in large country houses where sometimes people happen to show of their guns to their guests. And for today’s puzzle: what house has a bath room next to the living room? I think that’s even illegal in many building codes. As I said, this doesn’t engage me as a crime story. The typical story has some intro, and then somebody finds the victim. Who did that? Why did they go to their room?