An antique pocket watch was reported stolen from a locked study. The owner insisted the room was sealed from the inside and nobody could have entered. Detective Reed walked in, looked at the grandfather clock ticking in the corner, and found the watch hidden inside the pendulum housing. 'It was an inside job,' Reed declared, 'done by someone who never even set foot in this room.' How was that possible?
A trained animal or remote device
If nobody entered the room and the watch was placed inside a moving clock mechanism, it was likely manipulated using a mechanical pulley system, a drone, or trained animal through the chimney or a ventilation shaft without physically entering the room.
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