Here is a 5-word-per-sentence opening for a murder mystery: The maid found a body. She started screaming very loudly. The butler heard the screams. He rushed into the room. There lay his boss, dead. A knife stuck out his back. Blood was all over the carpet. The maid kept on screaming. The butler was in shock. Who could have done this? He needed to call police. They had a murderer here. This was no accident clearly. It was a gruesome bloody scene.