Spiders!
Here is the next post of Act II of Jayne Barnard's "The Evil Eye of Africa."
The first post is here.
A list of all the characters is here.
You can get all the posts by clicking on the mystery tag.
Remember that if you think you have solved the mystery email your deduction to: madamesaffron at gmail.com.
Madame will be drawing from all the correct solutions for some prizes from Tyche Books!
Keep your sightglass full, your firebox trimmed and your water iced.
KJ
"The Evil Eye of Africa"
By Jayne Barnard
A Guess-the-Murderer Mystery in Two Acts
By Jayne Barnard
A Guess-the-Murderer Mystery in Two Acts
Act II: Hercule Hornblower Investigates
August 21, 1898
After a long, slow journey across miles of desolate, windswept moor, Hercule Hornblower has arrived! At Boddy Manor, that is, a gray stone pile much diminished from the implied elegance of the engraving the newspapers have used.
My first order of business will be to deploy my spider-eyes in every public room of the large house. The cunning beasts are the next generation, capable not only of recording images when anyone moves with in the room, but of scuttling into hiding when anyone approaches, thus preserving their mechanisms from swatting damage.
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