redherring
- Diversion created when derringer shot outside hotel
- Diversion intended to distract
- Whodunit staple
- Misleading lead
- Decoy, of sorts
- Whodunit misdirection
- Seemingly important but actually irrelevant factor, like this answer
- It diverts the attention
- Fishy lead
- Fishy fish
- Fishy clue
- Fake footprint at the murder scene, e.g
- Embarrassed fish?
- Distracting literary device
- Dish for a shifty politician
- Deliberate distraction
- Attention diverter
- It misleads
- Purposeful misdirection
- Misleading clue
- Diversionary tactic
- Subterfuge
- Mystery-novel item
- Planned distraction
- Whodunit ingredient
- Diversion; distraction
- False clue
- Celebrity right to enter pastures new
- Embarrassed, being wrong about hard or false clue?
- Old Communist group imprisoning that woman is a distraction
- Socialist woman's circle that is misleading
- False lead
- A swimmer smoked something to divert the attention
- Interpreted, we hear, sign that woman's married? Misleading clue!