Which detective are you?

Four questions to find your way of investigating, and the case made for you.

1. Faced with an unsolved case, you start by…

rereading the official reports, line by line going to the scene and questioning witnesses following the money: accounts, receipts, invoices looking for what doesn't hold up in the legend

2. Your favourite piece of evidence:

a time-stamped telegram an annotated street map a ledger a press cutting to check

3. A witness contradicts himself. You…

compare his statement with the others, word for word go back to him, same place, same time look at who had an interest in his lying write it down: rumour until proven otherwise

4. Your flaw as an investigator:

you want to read everything before concluding you trust your instinct you see schemes everywhere you doubt everything, even the obvious

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