Inspector Cole walked into a freezing cabin and found a man dead on the floor from a gunshot wound to the chest. There was no gun anywhere in the room. The only tracks in the fresh snow outside belonged to the victim, leading straight to the cabin door and stopping. The windows were frozen shut from the inside. How did the killer commit the crime without leaving tracks or a weapon?
An icicle gun
The killer used a gun made of compressed ice. Once fired, the murder weapon melted completely away, leaving no gun and no evidence behind.
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