Murder At The Gala by Joshiah Warbaum

Author:Joshiah Warbaum [Warbaum, Joshiah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Joshiah's Written Works
Published: 2016-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Y0u don’t know for sure who the killer is, and you’re afraid to try and run away from them or the police, so you decide to stay put, keeping your ears perked high and your senses as sharp as possible. If someone is going to assault you, perhaps you can hear them coming before they arrive.

“Hurry up and get the power turned back on!” Detective Murphy shouts to the other officers, and within the course of a minute, they find the circuit breaker panel in the hotel. Beams from flashlights are everywhere as the police struggle to contain the chaos, and then, in an instant, everyone is squinting from the lights coming back on.

No one else has been taken down, but the knife has been taken from Helen’s body, and without that piece of evidence, the detectives have nothing to use as a means of tying someone to the murder itself. Things have taken a massive step backwards, and Detective Murphy is visibly frustrated by the whole situation.

“I want two officers guarding that circuit breaker at all times. If the power goes out again, there’d better be two dead police officers in front of that electrical box!” he demands, and it’s clear just how easily he can throw his weight around in the department. Two officers head straight to the circuit breaker, hidden in a small utility closet by the back of the banquet hall.

“The knife was taken, and the person who took it wasn’t in this room, but the person who did take it must have known the layout of the hotel,” Detective Walters deduces, as she looks at the kitchen doors that lead into the banquet hall. Sure enough, doors open up to the other side and into the dining room, meaning that the kitchen passes all the way through, and someone could easily make the trip between the two rooms, relatively undetected, and return in time to kick the power back on…there was a short warm-up period before the lights came to full illumination, and that was enough for the detectives to accost Tom Thatcher once again. “I’m sure your father would be deeply upset to see the kind of monster that you’ve turned out to be, Tom Thatcher!”

Tom doesn’t resist, but his face is visibly twisted in frustration as Detective Walters steps behind him and forces him into cuffs. Your words have done absolutely nothing to verify his innocence now, leaving Tom to defend himself…and he’s got only one out.

“Elisa knows this hotel every bit as well as any of the employees!” he declared, even as Detective Murphy stood in front of him to keep him from trying to escape. “She easily could have used the passage within the kitchen to make the kill earlier this evening!”

DNA evidence would suggest that she didn’t, but you’re not convinced of her innocence in the whole plot. Something about the writing on the handle of the knife stuck out to you when you saw it up close, and even

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