A museum curator was found dead in a locked exhibition room. The room had no windows and only one heavy door, bolted from the inside. Inside the room, the curator lay beside a tipped-over stool, with a rope hanging from a ceiling beam overhead. Detective Reed noticed that the floor beneath the stool was completely covered in thick, melting blocks of ice, yet the room's thermostat was set to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Reed solved the case. How did the killer pull off the locked-room suicide illusion?
An melting ice block
The killer used large blocks of ice to stand on instead of a stool that would leave marks, or used ice to elevate the victim. As the ice melted in the 90-degree room, it turned into water puddles, lowering the victim slowly into a hanging position without needing a kicked-away stool.
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