- Title: The Wrong House
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to the Milano restaurant located in Midtown Manhattan where a group of six friends, a waiter, and one guest, would gather once a month for an exclusive dinner and a mystery to be solved. Sometimes the guest is calm and sometimes quite anxious, but he always has something on his mind. Christopher Levan is decidedly the latter, haunted by a drunken mistake and a mystery he can’t unravel.
Having had too much to drink at his college reunion, the man returned home to an unexpected surprise. Driven home, and let off at the start of the block, the inebriated Levan stumbled into one of the four identical houses and stumbled upon a counterfeiting ring. Having passed out, and found outside his house later that night by his wife, Levan steadfastly believes what he saw but has no evidence other than his drunken memory (which can’t even solve which of his neighbors’ homes him entered by mistake). Unable to go to the police without describing the circumstances that led him to his discovery, the man has been sulking on events ever since.
The guest doesn’t take to the group’s grilling as well as most, but is free with details once the story is pried out of him as each of the members submit their theories only for each, in turn, to be shot down by Levan. However, by the end of the evening Henry offers one small observation that leaves every member of the table stunned, offering a simple explanation to the entire affair (and one hell of an entirely new problem for the bank’s vice president to solve).