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Rain stitched silver threads across Blackwell Manor's windows after midnight. Detective Mara Vale arrived as the grandfather clock stopped suddenly. Inside, candles trembled, revealing muddy footprints along the marble floor. Lord Blackwell lay beneath the portrait, smiling strangely in death. A ruby-handled letter opener pinned his bloodied cravat to carpet. No one screamed; the household waited, listening to rain outside. Mara noticed wax dripped upward on the nearest sconce somehow. She also saw one dinner chair facing the wall alone. From upstairs, a nursery rhyme began in a man's voice. Mara closed the door, knowing the murderer remained inside nearby.