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The heavy rain hammered against the tall windows of Blackwood Manor as thunder rolled across the dark, unforgiving countryside tonight. Detective Margot Crane stepped through the front door and immediately smelled copper and ash lingering thickly in the stale air. Her flashlight swept across the marble foyer, revealing crimson droplets that formed a jagged trail leading toward the grand staircase. Each footstep echoed through the hollow corridor as she followed the blood, her heart pounding against her ribcage with dread. At the top of the stairs, the library door hung open, and within its shadows lay Lord Edmund Blackwood, dead. A silver letter opener was buried deep in his chest, its handle carved with serpents gleaming under her trembling light. On the floor beside him, a playing card faced upward—the Queen of Spades—left deliberately as a mocking signature. Crane knelt slowly and whispered to the dead man that she would find his killer before this long night ended.