In the succeeding years, as investigators came up empty on clues, the public had its own theories as to the culprits.
No clue, blank, empty, without hope.
Acting on the ambivalent advice of a hostel receptionist in Kampala, I made my first foray to Port Bell, Kampala's lakeshore harbour, and found only an empty berth, and no clue from people I spoke with as to when the Umoja would arrive.
Maddeningly, nearly all are empty, devoid of obvious clues to what they once held.
Bread baskets remained empty, runners hadn't a clue as to where to place dishes and waiters were elsewhere when needed.
Each expert module generates a (possibly empty) candidate list for each clue, and the lists are merged together and placed into the grid by a centralized solver.
Tonight this spot offers free back massages and empty tables with Monopoly and Clue and rows of gleaming unmanned Xboxes.
The way to find them, we discovered, was to walk quietly in the middle of the empty streets and listen for clues: a muffled conversation, a clink of plates, the creaking hinge of a quickly opened door.
You'll pluck a hardcover book from its place on the shelf only to realize that its insides are empty, the hiding place of a clue.
I did enjoy Joe's refreshing honesty when he said to us, "I took the empty urn, and I have no clue".
