I agree that it was the second suspect but not for the type of candle. If it had burned for 1 hour and 51 minutes there would be a lot of wax in and on the candle holder. Even the so called “dripless” candles leave some residue over that length of time.
Agreed. I didn’t look up migration times. I looked up “pied”. The bird should have been spotted. Without knowing the area in which the man was murdered, How could we know whether the bird had migrated from or too that area.
The bass section of the orchestra got drunk one night. When they looked around they saw that the sheet music was put into bundles and fastened with string.
In the days of sailing ships, there were often hatches below the water line. If a person deliberately opened one of those hatches while at sea, it would sink the ship. The hatches were called “scuttes”.
The phrase itself, in this usage, means to have the activity/plans stopped cold unexpectedly.
I think that Snoopy chose exactly the right word here.
I agree that it was the second suspect but not for the type of candle. If it had burned for 1 hour and 51 minutes there would be a lot of wax in and on the candle holder. Even the so called “dripless” candles leave some residue over that length of time.