Run: 2026-09-29-01M3P2DQ65C8JBPZ7C0BQXWABZ

Rain hammered Blackwood Manor on the night Lord Ashby died. Inspector Mara Finch arrived near midnight, her coat soaked through. The butler waited in the foyer, pale and visibly trembling. Lord Ashby lay face-down, a dagger buried in his back. Mara knelt beside him and noticed the window was locked. Every door and window had been bolted from the inside. Someone in this house had killed him, and remained here. Mara turned to the butler and asked who found him. "I did, madam, at eleven, and the clock had stopped." Mara glanced at the clock, frozen at ten past nine. Someone wanted the murder to seem earlier than it was.