Here is a 197-word opening scene for a murder mystery with sentences containing exactly 20 words each: It was a dark and stormy night when the phone call came in. A hysterical voice cried out that there had been a murder at the old Victorian mansion on the edge of town. Detective Marks threw on his trench coat and raced out into the pouring rain to the towering house on the hill that had always given the neighborhood children nightmares. Caution tape surrounded the perimeter, and forensic techs were photographing the lifeless body of a man in a gray suit collapsed face down on the marble foyer floor in an expanding pool of blood. The medical examiner determined that the victim had been stabbed multiple times, yet there were no murder weapons or obvious signs of a struggle found anywhere in the now eerily quiet home. After interviewing the hysterical woman who had discovered the body just twenty minutes before, Detective Marks knew this would be his most challenging case yet.