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Yeah, that was a good one. I'm glad you made us guess right up until the last detail, as frustrating as it was. Also, you're right in that it was a fair solution, while being very difficult to work out at the time. I was so fixated on it being a bad thing that had distracted Gwen that it didn't ever occur to me that she could have been distracted because she was amused. So, good job on that!

Did Gwen ask her uncle's permission to read the rest of the journal?

If so, then the solution is this: Gwen went to clean her father's house after he passed away. She found his old journal and began to read it. She found out something shocking - about her uncle? - and phoned him. He confirmed that what she had read was true, and gave her permission to read the rest of the journal. Gwen was so eager to finish learning the story of the father and uncle that she forgot to lock up the house and fell asleep. Later that night, a burglar, who had heard that the house was now empty, attempted to break in, only to find that the door was unlocked. He entered the house and, while looking for valuables, stumbled across a slumbering Gwen. In his panic the burglar killed her by (insert murder method of choice here - I say he smothered her with a pillow).

The one thing that's bugging me is what she read in the journal. Had the uncle committed a crime?

You know, this feels like that last werewolf game, where I was so close to working it out but my brain just wouldn't make that final leap.

Some people have mentioned an apparent contradiction in the way two certain questions were answered, but there is no contradiction if you consider the wording of those two questions carefully.

These two, I presume:

Is the murder related to the phone call?
Would she had been murdered if she hadn't made the phone call?

I assume this is because the burglar would have ended up at the house whether Gwen had made the call or not, so the murder is not actually related to it. Rather, it's something that Gwen (or possibly the uncle) did in relation to the phone call that led to her death. The phone call must have either led to Gwen leaving the door unlocked, allowing the burglar to enter the house silently, or it simply led to Gwen still being in the house, when ordinarily she would have left earlier.

Did the phone call lead to Gwen leaving the door unlocked?
Did Gwen only continue reading the journal because of the phone call?
Would Gwen have gone home before the burglar arrived if she hadn't made the phone call?

Did Gwen forget to lock the door because she was distracted by something specific (i.e. something she had read in the journal, or something her uncle had said as opposed to just generally being distracted by her father's death and having to clear the house)?
Did Gwen leave the house to make the phone call?
Did Gwen's father have a pet that needed access in or out of the house?
Did Gwen call her uncle to confirm or clarify something that was mentioned in the journal?
Had Gwen's uncle written in the journal?

Did Gwen leave the door unlocked deliberately?
Was there an instruction in the journal to call the uncle?
Was part of the journal in code?

I think you're on the right track. The murderer is a random burglar who heard that the house was now empty and didn't expect Gwen to be there. But what the phone call, uncle and journal have to do with anything is beyond me.

Was the house a family home that Gwen's father and uncle had grown up in?
Did Gwen's uncle tell her something about the house?
Did Gwen's uncle tell her to leave the door unlocked?

Galen is correct! It is Good Omens.

All the screenshots are from the fifth episode. The first is Crowley's answer machine, the second is Crowley moving markers around where the M25 will eventually be, the third is Crowley driving to the bookshop (I've just realised I've picked very Crowley-centric images!) and the last one is the kids meeting up. I was going to post a picture of the Four Horsepersons next.

Your go, Galen!

I'm so completely confused by all of this... The answer to "Is the murder related to the phone call?" is no, but the answer to "Would she had been murdered if she hadn't made the phone call?" is ALSO no...

I was wondering about that, too. I can't work it out.

Is anything supernatural involved?
Did the murderer know that Gwen was in the house before he entered?
Was Gwen's uncle mentioned in the journal?
Is the murderer a random man with no connection to the family?
Was Gwen's body found in her bedroom?

Not Bodyguard or Silent Witness. That is indeed London, though.



Hint: Mandle's guess of Stranger Things has been the closest so far.

No. I should probably say it's the opening scene of the episode, not opening titles, just for clarity.

Is the person she called the one who killed her?

Already answered:

Was Gwen murdered by the person she phoned?

Was the murderer looking for something of monetary value?
Was the person that Gwen phoned a relative of her father's?
Is the father's cause of death important?
Did Gwen already know the murderer?
Did Gwen and the murderer enter the house together?

No more guesses? OK, another image then. This is the opening of this episode:

No.

Did the murderer break in to the house?
Was the murderer already in the house when Gwen arrived?
Did the murderer overhear the phone call?

Nope, nope and nope.

New image:

OK, so Barney strangled the lover with the rope he was going to use to hang himself, but was not significantly injured in the process. Nor was he poisoned or die from some kind of gas inhalation.

You sum it up almost correct!

But I can't quite work out that last little bit.

Did the dead body fall on Barney and trap him somehow?

Oh, the newest series of Amazing Spaces was 9.

No, not Hidden Figures.

OK, so Barney strangled the lover with the rope he was going to use to hang himself, but was not significantly injured in the process. Nor was he poisoned or die from some kind of gas inhalation.

Did Barney trip over the body and hit his head?
Had the lover somehow caused a fire to start that burned Barney to death?
Did Barney drown?

(That last one's a long shot, but maybe he fell in the bath? )

Oh, I remember seeing the spinning room contraption! Did you see the one in the latest series with the bathroom that disappeared flat behind a wall? The entire kitchen was on some kind of pulley and the bathroom was behind it. Some of the ideas that people come up with are ridiculously clever.

Anyway, on with the game:

That looks like George Clarke in that snazzy room. I know he's done a few different property shows, but I'll guess George Clarke's Amazing Spaces?