here comes your next contest. The last one was very modern, so we decided to return to the classics.

You all know Sherlock Holmes, right? The guy who looks at your shoe and tells you that your cat has been locked in your wardrobe by the gardener who nicked all your chocolate beforehand. That sort of stuff.

He's using CLUES to suss things out. In classical mysteries, clues are really, really important. Clues - and red herrings. Because readers of classical mysteries want to play Sherlock Holmes and work things out for themselves. Clues (and red herrings) are in fact so important, we have written a chapter in our Writing Tips to give you some ideas what we mean by this and how to use it in your own stories. We suggest you scoot right over and have a look.