The puzzle inside was intriguing, so much so that I spent the next hour-plus trying to decode it and found myself turning it over in the back of my mind for much of the following week-until a new letter arrived with more intriguing breadcrumbs to follow.Īfter I excitedly told my family about the letters in one of our weekly Zoom calls, my mother fessed up to buying me a subscription to Dear Holmes, a mail service that sends mysteries through the mail in a series of weekly letters, revealing a new case bit by bit every month.Īs it turns out, this is just one of the many ways that stories and puzzle-solving experiences are being served through the mail. The envelope was addressed to me, but inside was a dispatch from John Watson back in 1914 London, describing a peculiar event that he wanted the famed detective’s help with. It was about three months into the pandemic lockdown of 2020 when I got a letter meant for Sherlock Holmes.
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