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The morning fog clung to the cobblestones like a guilty secret refusing to be confessed aloud in the dim light. Detective Eleanor Voss pulled her wool coat tighter and studied the body slumped near the old stone fountain's quiet basin. A single crimson glove lay beside the victim's outstretched hand, its fingers curled inward as if grasping something still unseen. Voss knelt on the damp stones, her knees protesting the cold, and examined the glove without touching its worn leather. The victim's face was turned toward the gray sky, and a small silver key rested just beneath his parted lips. She glanced at the constable standing by the fountain's edge, whose notebook was already damp with the morning's slow drizzle. "Nobody touches that key until the photographer arrives," Voss said, her breath curling in the frigid air like thin smoke. The constable nodded, then pointed a trembling finger toward the narrow alley where a dark figure had vanished moments before. Voss rose slowly, her eyes fixed on the alley's black mouth, and felt the first cold thread of suspicion tighten. Whoever had killed the man by the fountain had left behind a key, a glove, and a strange, deliberate silence.