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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8170680" data-attributes="member: 7016699">It's a tricky line to walk (but I'm sure you and your players enjoyed it): The pleasures of ratiocination mysteries (IMO) are either you beat the detective to the solution, or you follow the detective's thoughts as they explain the solution; the former seems difficult without some sort of clock, and the latter doesn't seem tenable to me in a TRPG.My solution when I ad-libbed myself into this particular corner was to have the mystery they were trying to solve--if the merchant didn't murder his lover, who did (and why)?--tie into a larger plot that was a threat to the entire dwarven stronghold the party were in. The party figured out the broad outlines and started working to alert the stronghold--in the larger scale, it didn't matter much that they'd guessed doppelgangers when the shapeshifters in question were oni (ogre magi), and the party's moves to get word of the plot to the hierarchy turned the party into targets, so things worked out relatively well.</blockquote>