Detective Miller walked into the dimly lit hotel room. A man sat at the desk, a poison dart lodged in his neck. The room had only one door, bolted from the inside, and a window sealed shut with old paint that hadn't been opened in years. There were no blowdarts, pipes, or hidden launchers anywhere in the room. Puzzled, Miller looked up at the ceiling and found the answer. What did he see?
A hole in the ceiling
The killer shot the poison dart from the room directly above through a drilled hole in the ceiling, making it a locked-room murder from another angle.
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