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The rain hammered against the windows of Blackwood Manor. Detective Clara Vance stepped through the doorway, shaking water from her coat. Nobody had touched the body since the scream echoed. Her partner, Sergeant Miles Holloway, waited near the staircase. He looked pale beneath the flickering chandelier light. "The victim is Edmund Ashcroft, the family solicitor." Clara knelt beside the library desk and studied him. Ink stains marked his fingers, and a letter lay open. Someone had carefully folded the envelope before leaving it there. Clara noticed a single muddy footprint beside the rug. It pointed toward the servants' stairwell, not the front door. Miles cleared his throat behind her. "The housekeeper swears she heard two voices arguing." Clara rose slowly and turned toward the dim hallway. "Then somebody in this house is lying to us," she said.