Priya+and+Grace

A Murder in Eden

In the sheltered embrace of the sleepy village Where all lay calm under the blanket of naive innocence Yet in the hearts of a malicious few were sown the seeds of greed Their veil of simple purity laced with deception A public invitation to the townspeople portended the gory face of death A murder game gone wrong, leaving the stupefied town in desperate need of an answer

The inspector scoured the suspects with questions, awaiting an answer The killer of Rudi Scherz hidden among the tranquility of the village Each pair of eyes claiming a different perception of the death Each story insistently waving the flag of innocence Only the aged eyes of one keenly slicing through deception Suspected that it all was driven by the greed.

Randall Goedler’s bequeathed fortune sparked hungry geed Suggested from his wife’s deathbed, his faceless estranged heirs seemed the obvious answer For the secretly oiled door suggested further deception <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rumors and missing guns and secret meetings raged like rapid fire through the village <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Only one person was readily assumed by all to be a model of innocence <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the center of the brewing storm stood Letty Blacklock, alone after Charlotte’s death

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At her own birthday party, Dora sucuumbed to delicious death <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next victim of the vindictive greed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amidst the havoc, hysterical Mitzi of a foreign land denied Philippa’s innocence <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Haunted with questions about the past she would not answer <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Other fingers pointed to young Patrick, crude trickster of the village <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Identities still built on assumption, stories still fraught with deception

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Keenly poring through photographs and letters, Miss Marple was impervious to deception <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As Murgatroyd uncovered the truth but was silenced by death <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends turned to enemies, neighbors turned to strangers in the once peaceful village <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who would be driven to this monstrous extent, all because of greed? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A cat and a lamp revealed the key to the answer <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Guilt tainted the one thought to have the most innocence

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The real Letitia Blacklock had goodness and innocence <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But Lotty, like Pip and Emma, stole her identity by cunning deception <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By echoing the voice of the dead, Miss Marple revealed the answer <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To end the chain of murders, Mitzi risked death <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Uncovering at last, the festering motives of greed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lotty’s plans foiled by the unified efforts of the village

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the resolution of the answer to murders driven by greed <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A harmonious innocence restored to the village <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Freed from the grasp of death and the shadows of deception