[MaC] An Almighty Row (correction)

[Jonathan Katalenic]

--- Mel Mason <goldfired at oxmust.co.uk> wrote:

> >>> Marjorie considered the bag, then moved toward
> the service door
> >>> the lounge.  "I'll get the scrap of fabric from
> the curtain..
> >>> I left it on the bar for Mrs. Fitzroy to sew
> back in.  Since
> >>> everyone's here... should be safe."
> >>
> >>
> >>     "I should rather like to know where the blood
> came from," said 
> >> Pamela. "Cats do play with... string... What was
> in that bag?"
> >>
> >
> > Marjorie returned with the scrap in hand.  She
> handed it to Oswald.
> > "Could... it's a black piece of fabric, but would
> you be able to
> > figure out if there was somethin' on it?  Like...
> grease?  Or blood?"
> > She looked around.  "Maybe.. someone cut
> themselves getting the
> > piece out."
> >
> 
> "Perhaps," said Oswald.  "But I think we can narrow
> our suspects down a 
> little.  "Who was actually present in the room when
> Fitzroy was poisoned?"
> 
> "Lady Gower wasn't," said Lucinda.  "Or Mrs Fitzroy
> ... or Mrs Evans.  And 
> Mr Davies and Mr Drake were downstairs by the front
> door.
> 
> "The Wing-Commander, Mr Beaman and Miss Douglas all
> came in a little late 
> ... perhaps just in time to poison Mr Fitzroy - if
> they acted quickly. 
> Perhaps Lord Benwick, Miss Mauberley and Mr
> Barowenski - they came later.
> 
> "Unless rthose people who weren't here had a way to
> poison the tea while 
> they were out of the room ... I would think they're
> in the clear.  And I 
> know Mrs Beaman had the tea from Mrs Evans.  But
> that would be a very 
> imprecise way of killing someone ... and this is a
> killing done with some 
> precision."  She looked at her husand.
> 
> "We could test for the blood on the paper bag ...
> and blood on the curtain."
> 
> "The blood may have come later," said Oswald. 
> "After the strangling ... 
> several people had cuts or marks on their hands ...
> didn't they?"
> 
> "We could also also see if anyone is carrying a
> knife that might have been 
> used to cut the curtain," suggested Anton.  "A pen
> knife ... or a ceremonial 
> dagger." 

'Wait a minute,' Nicola thought to herself. "He had a
knife... and cuts on his hands," she said aloud
slowly. Her gaze turned towards Lord Richard.


	
		
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