Today's mystery

I love mysteries of all sorts. I love collecting them and puzzling over them. I propose to post an irregular series of mysteries this year (2011). I propose it, but we’ll see if I can accomplish anything like that. Life has proven to be unpredictable in past months, so any promise I make will have to be rather half-baked. Some of these mysteries will be historical, some will be fantastical, others will be more mundane; some may have happened to me or people I know, and some may exist in that land between fact and fiction. I will leave it to you to decide which is which.