Hopefully Anonymous: if you’d like a mystery like that, I can recommend The Tokyo Zodiac Murders. The author explicitly writes it so you can solve it, and is even nice enough to give you the major hint and tell you to stop reading before his character solves the mystery.
To my everlasting shame, I couldn’t solve it; this was my fault, and not the author’s (as he indeed was playing it straight).
Hopefully Anonymous: if you’d like a mystery like that, I can recommend The Tokyo Zodiac Murders. The author explicitly writes it so you can solve it, and is even nice enough to give you the major hint and tell you to stop reading before his character solves the mystery.
To my everlasting shame, I couldn’t solve it; this was my fault, and not the author’s (as he indeed was playing it straight).