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Detective Doug glanced around at the clutter in the dingy apartment. The aging famous columnist Bill Williams had been fatally stabbed. His agent, Roger, had called the police when Bill failed to submit his column to the newspaper. Bill's body was seated at his desk with his face lying on his manual typewriter. The detective glanced at the paper in the typewriter. It appeared to be the writer's column. The victim's head rested on the keyboard and had apparently hit random keys causing the last line of the article to be "49t34 w5qgg3e j3". The detective was surprised to see that Bill had used a typewriter rather than a computer. Roger, Bill's agent, explained that Bill found it therapeutic to pound the keys on his typewriter, and despised computers. Out of a list of acquaintances provided by Bill's agent, Doug questioned the following people: Nina had been separated from Bill for the last year and a half. Although initially the split had been amicable, lately things had gotten nasty about the division of their assets. Bill was willing to give Nina the mansion and a generous lump sum payment, but wanted to draw the line at the excessive alimony being demanded by Nina's lawyer. Nina was living in the mansion and had a generous pre-alimony settlement and an extremely attractive new boyfriend, JonTom. Juliet was Bill's current girlfriend. She definitely was a looker and by all appearances was extremely high maintenance. She was also the spring in this May/December romance. Although crying, she was devastatingly attractive in her designer dress. She had a Gucci bag, wore emerald and diamond jewelry and on her wrist a new Rolex. The detective suspected her grief was for the loss of her "gravy train" and not for the deceased. Bill's brother, Ken, had been dating Nina when Bill had stolen her away. Ken still held a grudge and blatantly told the detective that "he was glad his brother was dead and good riddance". He hinted that he might try to win Nina back, now that his brother was dead. After a brief investigation an arrest was made. Who did Doug arrest?
roger stabbed me. ;) :popcorn: suppose i should explain. :D "49t34 w5qgg3e j3" each letter, number respond to the correct one from the line below and to the right on a pc keyboard.
Yep. The keys on the old manual typewriters are laid out very similarly to a computer keyboard.
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Well done terry1966! :thumbup:

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must admit that one was easy and the answer just jumped out at me without having to spend any time working/thinking on/about it. always nice when that happens. :rofl: :popcorn: