Comments (16) (Please sign in to comment)

1. 

   Rod Gonzalez said, 4 months ago

   I can hardly wait to see how he figured out THIS one.
2. 

   mrbribery said, 4 months ago

   the tip-off was, real Chinese detectives don’t wear blue suitcoats with pajama bottoms and slippers.
3. 

   cloa513 said, 4 months ago

   Isn’t carrying a knife a tip-off?
4. 

   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   Chinese people don’t call people honorable sir?
   Nobody replied yesterday with an answer .. .though I did enjoy the ‘honourable discharge’ gag…
5. 

   JoviusGM said, 4 months ago

   Here’s my guess… the pics show a left-handed detective, but the coat shows a right-handed person. the knife in the right hand clinches it.
6. 

   Homer D. Poe said, 4 months ago

   Lang-Tung-Ting spelled backward is Gnit-Gnut-Gnal
7. 

   Homer D. Poe said, 4 months ago

   That rubber head had ME fooled!
8. 

   Kuldip Rai said, 4 months ago

   What’s left handed about the pictures? A lot of right-handed people have their desk phone on the left (i do), and the tea cup was actually positioned for a right handed person (I’ll give you the kettle on his left though).
9. 

   Kuldip Rai said, 4 months ago

   I think Homer D Poe got it already, bowing is a customary japanese way of greeting, not chinese.
   Either the man with 99 faces is japanese, or doesnt know the difference between being japanese and chinese (i apologise if that sounds a bit racial to anyone)
10. 

    SeaFox10 said, 4 months ago

    @Rod Gonzalez

    It was in the script!
11. 

    nighthawks said, 4 months ago

    this has probably already been mentioned here, but I must throw in my two cents.
    I liked this strip when it had the entire mystery in day.
    when it’s split up like this , who can remember what clues were in the strip 3 days ago? Of course, you can always backtrack on the calendar and see the previous days’ strips to put it all together but…..I’m waay too lazy for that.
    Now I don’t read it it at all….
12. 

    Michael McMillan said, 4 months ago

    This one didn’t even offer much in the way of mystery. Only one possible suspect unless Alfie was an impostor. So, the only “mystery” is why it took four days to figure it out when we all knew the first day— by simple lack of any other choices.
13. 

    DetectiveKemper said, 4 months ago

    The photo of the real Chinese detective included the cup of tea that helps him think. The recent photo in their office shows no cup of tea.
14. 

    Tom Tildrum said, 4 months ago

    “It’s a letter from the Man with 99 Faces saying that he’ll kill me today.”

    “It’s an unexpected visitor whom I’ve never met before.”

    Kind of weak.
15. 

    cloa513 said, 4 months ago

    Bowing is still a traditional Chinese greeting (only a slight bow) but not much used. Hardly used in modern Japan either.
16. Load the rest of the comments (1).