Run: 2026-09-23-01M37Q8NYB8WF4JW4NE7Y1XHJB

The storm had been raging for three days when Lady Margaret Ashworth was found dead in the old locked library. Inspector Thomas Reed stood in the doorway, rainwater dripping from his coat, and studied the scene with tired grey eyes. She lay slumped across the mahogany desk, one hand clutching a silver fountain pen, the other dangling toward the floor. The only key to the room had been discovered beneath her body, which made the whole situation considerably more troubling. Behind him, the butler cleared his throat nervously and announced that the other guests were waiting in the drawing room. Reed nodded slowly, knowing that one of those five elegant strangers had almost certainly committed this murder sometime last night. Before he joined them, he noticed something strange: the clock on the mantelpiece had stopped at eleven minutes past midnight. Somebody in this house was lying, and Reed intended to discover who before the storm cleared and they finally escaped.