A ship captain was found murdered in his locked cabin on the open sea. The room had a single porthole too small for a human body to fit through. The ship's logbook was open on the desk, with the final entry written in the captain's own handwriting: 'Approaching the storm. Dropping anchor.' Detective Reed checked the anchor chain and arrested the first mate. What did the first mate do?
Dropped the anchor while the ship was moving at high speed
Dropping an anchor while a ship is moving at high speed causes a violent, catastrophic jerk that flings objects and people across the cabin, which the first mate used to hurl the captain into furniture or overboard through the porthole.
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