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The old lighthouse keeper found the body at dawn, sprawled across the rocks below with blood pooling in the tide. Inspector Mara Voss arrived quickly, her boots crunching on broken shells, and immediately noticed the single red glove near the corpse's outstretched hand. She photographed everything carefully before the fog rolled in, knowing that secrets often vanished with the morning mist and salt air. The victim was identified as Julian Crane, a reclusive historian who had rented the cottage just three days before his brutal death. Mara questioned the local fishermen first, learning that Julian had argued loudly with someone unknown at the village pub the previous evening. A torn photograph found in Julian's pocket showed him standing beside a woman whose face had been scratched out with violent, deliberate force. The lighthouse keeper admitted he had seen lights moving in the cottage at midnight, though he swore no one had left before the body appeared. Mara studied the rocks carefully, finding a distinctive boot print pressed into the wet sand near where the killer had stood to watch Julian fall. She wondered if the red glove was a clue or a taunt, left intentionally for her to discover in the gray morning light. The tide was rising fast now, threatening to wash away evidence, so Mara worked quickly to preserve everything before the sea claimed its secrets forever.