Goodreads asked Elizabeth Bardot:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Elizabeth Bardot A few years ago in my office job, i took a homemade chicken pie with sour cream pastry and vegetables as my lunch - it takes me hours to make these pies and they are rich, creamy and decadent. I was looking forward to enjoying this as my lunch. As i went to put it into the fridge the lid slipped and the pie fell out onto the carpet upside down and i grabbed it quickly - less than 5 seconds so it's fine right?! then put it back in the fridge.

At lunch time, i went to heat up my pie and my lunch container was gone from the fridge. I had a moment of thinking perhaps I didn't actually bring the pie in as I was flustered that morning. Then I noticed the container sitting on the kitchen sink nice and clean.

Someone had eaten the pie then cleaned the container afterwards. I was so confused that I sent out an email to the entire office, labelled "dear pie thief" and the email said "I am not sure why you decided to steal my homemade pie but I thought you would want to know what you ate. I spent hours making the sour cream pastry and the creamy chicken and mushroom filling. I hope you enjoyed it. P.S i dropped it this morning so you ate floor pie."

Everyone in the office asked me about it and pointed fingers at who they thought stole the pie but no one came forward. To this day I still don't know who ate it and have always wondered who it was and why. If I could write a fun mystery, it would be on the pie thief.

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