Here is a 184 word opening scene for a murder mystery with 20 words per sentence: The lavish dinner party at the Norwood manor ended abruptly when a bloodcurdling scream emerged from outside the grand dining room where the 12 guests were seated around an exquisite mahogany table set with fine bone china and gleaming silver cutlery that reflected the candlelight cast by an ornate candelabra centered precisely on white damask table linen. Detective Josiah Pierce and his new deputy, Ellie Blackwell, scrambled to the garden where a hysterical housemaid in a black dress with white apron pointed a shaking finger at a man's body sprawled face-down near a marble fountain adorned with angel statues, his hands outstretched as if pleading for help and a dagger lodged firmly between the shoulder blades of his tailcoat dripping crimson onto the perfectly manicured green grass which glittered with shards of a broken champagne glass scattered near the corpse dressed in an expensively tailored tuxedo as darkness fell over the well-kept grounds that now hosted an uninvited and most unwelcome guest.