A Murder Mystery

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“Doesn’t this joker know that the first thing we checked was the phonerecord?! Eddie’s cell phone did in fact have a call from her home at11:15 PM, just like he said! Does he think we’re idiots?” huffed Joe.The officers looked on as the professor and Eddie sat there, neitherone talking for a bit.“Well that’s what happened.” Eddie still stared blankly at the coffee.He started seriously wondering about this old man the police sent in.The professor paused at length, much like the long pauses he used totake during his lectures. He had found that the pauses were awkward,but gave his students time to think. More often than most people knew,these pauses allowed thoughts to percolate in students’ heads.Students became active thinkers when they weren’t sure that a questionwasn’t just rhetorical, an answer soon to be given by the teacher. No,this forced them onto their toes, wondering if they’d be called on.They didn’t want to sound stupid.“Want to take a drink?”“Not from that cup.”“No, indeed.” Now the professor was pacing in front of the chalkboard.He was dabbling in his first crime consultation, and, ironically, foundhimself in a room full of cinder block walls, standing before a physicsequation in front of an unwilling audience that didn’t understand whatwas written.
“Newton’s Law of Cooling,” he began, “describes the behavior of thatonce hot coffee. Gradually, the original temperature of that coffeeslowly cools.” Long pause.Awkward.“Soon the coffee will freeze, I suppose?”The professor missed those times, he realized. Make an absurdstatement to see if the students are still awake. They seldomdisappointed.“No, man, it can’t get colder than this room!” Eddie had to show hewas on his toes. Didn’t want to look stupid.“Stuffy in here, eh? Tell me, Mr. Tenlivo, at what temperature do youthink they keep the thermostat for this lovely room?”“How should I know?’“Make a guess.” Pause.Awkward.“I don’t know.”Pause.Soon the student realized he could safely guess.
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