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‘Obviously, the body was in a very poor state after the fire, but I can confirm
It’s not Dong Dong Dong rather than a happy Ding ding Ding
‘Time to get that Action Book out.’
I’m still thinking Ruth, but food for thought… I don’t think I’ve ever read a whodunnit with a similar storyline where in the end it was a tragic accident. There are no doubt some, but none I’ve read.
I do remember watching a tv show though that looked into deaths & using forensics to solve deaths, this one time it looked like this woman had been stabbed & left where she lay. There were all these looks into different things, but in the end they deduced, & this is a TRUE crime, she was carrying a knife along with other items, she tripped, fell & fatally stabbed herself!
That ⬆️ always stayed with me, it was just sad & tragic, oh yeah & I’m very careful when I move around with sharp objects!
‘But what do you mean by suspicious?’ Dan asked. ‘That’s a bit vague, isn’t it?’ ‘It means,’ Harry said, doing his best to explain, ‘that although we know the cause of death,
Manner & method
Patricia explained then about the tapping at the window, the strange voices Beverly had used, and how it had all finally come to a somewhat inglorious end.
The other sister hired her. It has to be, it’s someone & there’s really only 4 options & she’s the only one I think of who could do it.
Patricia nodded. ‘Not all the time, just when he really needs to.’
Oooh… there’s a big red herring & my littlies have taken note, maybe they’re not as well off as they seem, maybe the car accident wasn’t even an accident! Ooh my minds swimming, semi literally right now!
I was away on business, you see.’
Hmm
‘Property development,’ Dan said. ‘But it’s not always the money-spinner everyone thinks it is.’ ‘So, you flip houses?’ the constable asked.
Double hmmm
and he’d been away because he’d had to try and sort things out.
Mr Author stop it with the red ones! I don’t know how much more my littlees can take before they explode with exhaustion!
So just what had caused the tapping?
A branch in someone’s hand…?
‘What do you think this is?’
Something the nicer sister and a so called medium got set up
‘That tap. It’s the same as the one last night. The one we all heard at the séance.’
Ding ding ding
all went a bit, well, wrong, I suppose.’
She didn’t know, it was just the ‘nice’ sister
So, where are we? No, don’t answer, because I’ll tell you. Nowhere at all, that’s where!’
You’ve forgotten the very basic rule ….. follow the MONEY!
‘So, there’s no intruder then,’ Harry said. ‘It was
Damnit, I’m going to have to switch suspects, back to the son in law I go!
“She said she saw a bright light on an
Oooh, & guess who has a great big bright torch? I know who!
that they were getting nowhere at all.
Mr author, don’t, please don’t, make the characters too dumb, I clued onto that road thing right away, so will most readers, Harry should of, & the others, I prefer intelligent characters
‘I can’t see why any of them would want to kill James,’ Jen said. ‘He’s Ruth and Pat’s dad, and Dan’s father-in-law.’
Most people are killed by someone they know, than in any other way, & good old Dans got a nice bright …
Harry said, and was up and out of the door before anyone could stop him, Matt chasing after him.
There we go
The rain was falling unbothered by wind, just thick planks of the stuff falling to the ground, and Harry could see it approaching, marching almost, across the fields.
I’ve never seen rain like that until I’ve been staying in this hotel (house wrecked by flood, insurance paying) but this room has a massive window around 1/2 the side of the room & it’s on the 2nd floor, & I’ve sat here seeing it rain in the distance, with binoculars, bought since I moved in here, and it’s a strange sight to see the rain move towards you, cool, but weird.
‘Weird when it’s like that, isn’t it?’ Matt said. ‘I mean, what’s that, probably no more than a couple of hundred metres away, is it? And it’s pouring down. And yet here we are, over here, bone dry.’
I didn’t read this part until I highlighted & wrote the above note, heh
Pat’s worried it’s a nervous breakdown.
Wonder if she’s next on his list?… then her son, then his wife, I mean why stop now?
‘It was a bottle she brought with us, for her dad,’ Dan said.
Oh good god! Now I have to switch again! If it wasn’t so much fun I’d be peeved off!
torch.
Well at least I get a ding ding ding for that!
‘Inheritance does funny things to people,’ sighed Firbank.
It does, when my grandad died, there was a big family fight, I guess you’d call it, about who got what, when I learned all about it I told my Dad to just tell them I didn’t want anything, that I didn’t want to be drawn into something so disgusting as fighting over money when someone we loved had died.
People, well some people, wonder about their character & how they’d act under different circumstances. I certainly didn’t say that to earn that knowledge about myself, but I learnt it nonetheless & I know I can be proud of who I am regardless of many other things.
And Harry’s Friday night swirled about him as, at the end of the line, he heard Jim start to cry.
And I know why, guessed it way back in this book, someone had to help the rustlers…
