The Pilot Who Wore a Dress: And Other Dastardly Lateral Thinking Mysteries
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Tom Cutler. The Pilot Who Wore a Dress: And Other Dastardly Lateral Thinking Mysteries
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
About the Author
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
LATERAL THINKING CLASSICS
The sailor who ate the cream tea
The Wishing Cup of Keriput
Murder in the snow
The Yorkshire factory
The riddle of the Burns supper
The annoying computer password
Terry’s girlfriends
The lorry driver slaying
The magic bucket
The impossible brothers
Arms and the child
The window cleaner in the sky
The troublesome signpost
The Knightsbridge barber
The fastest beard in the world
The high window
The confusing coach trip
The pilot who wore a dress
Picking up the children from school
The car in the river
The sad end of Felicity Ffolkes
The blind beggar
A birthday message from the Queen
Talking rubbish
The Flood
Hospital assault
The two Italians
House painting made simple
The absent-minded taxi driver
Plane crash in no man’s land
The strange story of Antony and Cleopatra
Bird strike
Contradictio in adjecto
Unconscious sexism
The short week
The man in the lift
Mary’s mum
The deserted prairie cabin
The two prime ministers
LOCKED ROOMS AND IMPOSSIBLE MURDERS
The Tea-leaf
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Glass Coffin: an Inspector Jibson Mystery
A Game of Roulette
The Two Bottles of Relish
The Problem of Thor Bridge
LATERAL THINKING MYSTERIES FROM REAL LIFE
Arsenic and Old Luce
The rather-short-very-long baseball game
The curious case of dihydrogen monoxide
The Mary Celeste affair
The story of Big Ben
The Euston Road poisonings
Kentucky blues
Uncle Bob’s magic pipe
The incredible story of Kaspar Hauser
The great Epping Jaundice mystery
The fastest submarine in the world
LATERAL THINKING BETCHAS AND GOTCHAS
The cocktail glass
Nailed it!
Five into four will go
The kiss
Twelve minus two equals two
Nine plus nothing makes ten
Betting edge
The house move
Blind date
Magnetic matches
The glass mousetraps
Fire under water
Saucer sorcery
How to put your head where your bottom should be
Bend me your ears
The easy restaurant bill-dodging betcha
Thinking outside the box
THE SOLUTIONS
Also by Tom Cutler
About the Publisher
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‘the one fixed point in a changing age’.
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Stuart left school without taking any exams but used his persuasive skills to land himself a job in the sales team of Polyplastika, a plastics manufacturer. The company turns out drainpipes, washing-up bowls, industrial pallets and buckets by the thousand.
Stuart was always a fantastic salesman and rose through the company ranks very fast. His friends call him ‘Irish Stu’, and say that he hasn’t so much kissed the Blarney Stone as stuck his tongue down its throat. By the time he was twenty Stu was heading the firm’s sales team and was beginning to earn serious money.
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