Run: 2026-05-29-01KSSK5GPDFFNSR2Y8BW1EKTQX

Rain hammered against the old mansion's tall and dusty windows. Detective Mara Voss stepped slowly inside, shaking off the cold. A man's body lay sprawled across the cold marble floor. Blood pooled beneath him, dark and still slowly spreading outward. The grandfather clock struck midnight as she knelt down quietly. Five guests waited upstairs, none of them yet truly aware. Mara studied the victim's face and felt her stomach tighten. She recognized him instantly from the morning's troubling newspaper headline. Senator Harold Crane, found dead inside his own locked study. The heavy door had been bolted firmly from the inside. Yet someone had somehow managed to kill him regardless tonight. Mara stood up, brushing dust from her knees, frowning deeply. This would surely be the hardest case of her career.