Hank Boyd Is Dead (2015)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #5 · March 8, 2026 · Comedy / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for Hank Boyd Is Dead (2015). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A washed-up comedian steals jokes from an obituary writer's unpublished memoir about her dead brother and the material becomes his breakout hour while she watches from the audience.
2. A man legally changes his name to escape his reputation as a disgraced teacher but his new identity belongs to someone recently deceased and creditors start appearing.
3. A young woman catering a post-funeral gathering for an accused killer investigates and discovers that the crimes he was accused of and his death may not have actually occurred as reported.
4. An alcoholic claims he witnessed a murder that nobody else remembers and his AA sponsor helps him investigate but every lead points back to his own blackout episodes.
5. Two sisters inherit their father's failing taxidermy shop and decide to stage his death for insurance money but the local funeral director wants proof of the body.
6. A grief counselor in Portland realizes his clients keep vanishing after their sessions and he starts manipulating new patients to see if they also disappear without explanation.