The Devil in the details
Here is the next post of Act II of Jayne Barnard's "The Evil Eye of Africa."
The first post is here.
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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 24, 1898
A day of the most surprising in this investigation: Baron von Boddy did not drown. He was murdered.
The Cornwall Constabulary knows this, but has kept it silent from the newspapers to further the investigation. Naturally, I offered my inestimable services to aid them. It is to be hoped that Mrs. Midas-White did not kill him, as claiming my fee from a murderess I helped to arrest could prove awkward.
To record in brief my learnings:
1. The skeleton clearly shows the nick of a bullet in a rear rib, indicating it was shot in the back.
2. The airship salon’s panoramic forward window has cracks in one corner, radiating from a small hole.
3. Some solvent, possibly fuel oil, has damaged the walnut flooring of the salon beneath the window. Did it dissolve a large blood stain?
4. The trunk to which von Boddy was tied was filled with books and papers, much water-stained but all of them the property of the American Professor Indy Brown.
5. Finally, the canopy and cork belt missing from the airship were found stuffed into a crevice on the moor.
For my reference, a view of the rocky shore where the skeleton washed up:
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