Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 32, No. 13, Mid-December 1987

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Want to try solving a real-life mystery? We’ve got a good one for you that’s been puzzling us for about a year now. In August 1986 some friends who own a weekend house in the country — on an isolated, heavily wooded mountainside in New York — arrived one Friday evening to find that someone had come calling, Goldilocks-style, in their absence. Only these folks, on the whole, were considerably neater than Goldilocks; in fact, they seemed to have a passion for cleanliness (see the list below). Nor were they regulation burglars in other ways. Left untouched were the TV, the stereo, the Nikon camera — in short, almost everything of real value. They did take the following:

four coffee cups (leaving two in the cupboard), but no saucers, and none of the coffee mugs

all the toothbrushes (there were four)

all soap, detergent, Clorox, SOS pads, toothpaste, razor blades, shaving soap

all plastic garbage bags, paper towels, paper napkins, toilet paper, boxes of Kleenex

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