100+ Detective Riddles Inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Detective Mehul

Detective Mehul breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Mehul hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great Lord and followed a gunshot Mehul smiles and informed the police that it's a murder.

Why did he think so?

Aalia shoots Mehul and then holds him underwater for 5 minutes. They then go out and enjoy dinner. How?

A couple goes on a camping trip, but only the husband returns. He claims that his wife fell off a cliff and died. When Detective Mehul gets in touch with the travel agent, he immediately arrests the husband. Why?

A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls Detective Mehul, who questions the wife and the staff, and are given the following alibis:

The wife says she was sleeping
The butler said he was cleaning the closet
The gardener was declared he was picking vegetables
The maid explained she was getting the mail
The cook said she was preparing breakfast

Immediately, the police arrest the murderer. Who did it and how did the police know?

• The wife
• The butler
• The gardener
• The maid

Riya and Aalia ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. 
Riya drank them very fast and had finished five in the time it took Aalia to drink just one. 
Aalia died while the Riya survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. How is that possible?

A body is found at the bottom of a high-rise block of flats. To the untrained eye, it looks as if the person had taken their own life.
Detective Mehul goes to each floor and finds the window looking out to where the body is. He flips a coin when he opens each window. Once he has done this on every floor, he deduces that it wasn't suicide. Why?

A killer told a detective that he would commit his next crime in the only place in Paris where you couldn't see the Eiffel Tower. How did the detective end up catching him?

Raj and Rahul were friends and their house was in a snowy region. Raj called Detective Mehul and informed him about his friend's death. 
Raj said he went to meet Rahul and knocked at the door but nobody opened the door. 
He cleaned the moisture of the window glass to look into the house. He saw Rahul lying on the floor in the pull of blood. 
Mehul arrested the murderer right away. How?

 Mehul shot Aalia in her car. There was no gunpowder residue on her clothing and no bullet holes in the windows or doors of the car. 
How is it possible?

Once as detective Mehul was walking around the forest trying to catch Dhamaka Singh, he came across a cave. He suspected that Dhamaka Singh was hiding inside it. But to open it he needed to solve a riddle-  "You tell it not to come, but it still comes. You tell it not to go, but it still goes by. What is it?" can you help him? 

Jagga is found unconscious in front of a store at two in the morning. His head is bleeding and there's a brick lying next to him. When the police arrive, they carry Jagga to jail. 
Why did they arrest him?

Gogo told a story about how he was awarded a medal for 'bravery during World War 1.' Why is this a lie?

Kushal walks into his house only to hear his wife shout, 'No John, don’t shoot!' The man bursts into the kitchen where he sees his wife on the floor, and a doctor, a lawyer, and a policeman standing by her. He immediately knows who shot her. How?

Two chickens were found dead on the farm. What does the detective Mehul suspect?

Dhamaka Singh escaped from the prison and ran to the countryside suddenly, on a small dark road, he saw a police car heading in his direction, Dhamaka Singh ran towards the car for some time then jumped off the road and rushed into the woods. Why did he run toward the car first ?