Dedication

The three suspects sat on the old, dusty, respectably large sofa. Mr and Mrs Bateby nervously looked at each other. Whilst Mr James Smith eyed them from the far end. "I'm guessing you know why your here" said Ellie asked. They nodded. "We are going to ask you some questions and you will answer them truthfully." Cyrus said. Otherwise there will be trouble." Cyrus said sternly. He hated being threatening, but he thought it was necessary. It had to be done. Jane Bateby started with her point of view. "Me and Dylan came at 7:00. Mr Smith was already there talking to Noris. He never told us about another person also buying the property. So we discussed. In the end, Mr Smith called the most money so he got the house." It was weird how she didn't mention them storming of. All the while, Ellie wrote everything down on her notebook. James Smith said that he and Noris was discussing about the house weeks before. He didn't even know about the Bateby's. Cyrus found this interesting. "You may leave now."

The two detectives started brainstorming. They thought of different possibilities. So far they had:

9/12/2000

Murder and Acasia Manor

Margret Shau could be in need of money. Maybe she could benefit from the death of Noris Simon since he has no other family that we know of? We need to find out what she could get from Noris. She seemed to be the likely suspect. Mrs Loren Colin is a quiet person. She could not have liked Noris very much but we need more information. She has been working there for 5 years. Why dislike him, she knew him very well. Mr and Mrs Bateby could be angry they didn't get the Manor. Why didn't the two groups know about each other. Was Noris trying to keep each of them secret. Mrs Bateby seemed to do all the talking. Mr Bateby didn't seem like the talking one. We need more information about Mr Smith.

This was a puzzling case. They decided to visit the Manor again in a week. But what they didn't know was that they were being hunted down. Whoever killed Noris and Herron, had a whole gang of people on their side. There is 3 questions waiting to be answered: Who? Why? and How?…