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Detective Mara Voss arrived at Blackwood Manor just as the morning fog began to lift from the frozen rose gardens. The body of Lord Edmund Blackwood lay sprawled across the grand staircase, one hand still clutching a silver letter opener. Snow drifted through a broken window above, settling gently upon his face like a shroud that nobody had asked for. Every servant in the house claimed they had heard nothing during the night, though their trembling hands told different stories. Mara noticed four sets of footprints in the hallway dust, each leading away toward different corners of the shadowy house. Somewhere upstairs, a clock struck seven times, and Mara wondered who had silenced it before the eighth chime rang out.