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Detective Mara Quinn arrived at Blackwood Manor precisely midnight, rain hammering her coat like cold accusations she desperately tried ignoring. The butler waited beneath flickering hallway chandelier, his face pale as untouched snow before sunrise holding one bloodstained silver envelope. Inside the library, Lord Alistair Blackwood lay sprawled across Persian rug, throat elegantly slit, eyes still open watching eternal darkness. Beside his cold hand, a shattered crystal decanter leaked expensive brandy onto priceless first edition books nobody dared ever touch. Mara knelt slowly, noticing faint muddy boot prints leading toward balcony doors still swinging in violent wind outside tonight alone. Somewhere upstairs, a woman screamed, but Mara understood that every guest here had wanted Blackwood dead before midnight struck loudly.