A wealthy lord was poisoned during a summer banquet. Every guest ate different foods, but all drank from the same communal punch bowl. The lord died, but everyone else survived unharmed. Detective Thorne deduced the poison was not in the punch bowl. Where was it?
On the rim of the lord's cup
If the poison were in the punch bowl, everyone who drank from it would have been affected. Applying poison exclusively to the rim of the lord's personal cup ensured only he ingested it.
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