Plot+Analysis


 * **Initial Situation:** A murder is said to take place at Little Paddocks at 6:30 a.m., and it indeed does. Two shots are fired, seemingly at Miss Blacklock, and a third kills Rudi Scherz, who had been acting as a burglar.
 * **Conflict:** The motives behind the Rudi Scherz’s actions are unknown. Police suspect that some other person paid Rudi to play his role. He better have been paid a lot of money!
 * **Complication:** Scherz may actually not have committed suicide, but rather, someone else killed him. It is made known that Miss Blacklock is in line to inherit a large sum of money, and that there are people who may feel that the money should be going to them. Hmm, I guess that's a good reason to kill someone.
 * **Climax:** Craddock gathers up three women and questions them about their alibis. Then, a scream is heard from the kitchen.
 * **Suspense:** Miss Blacklock is seen trying to drown Mitzi in the sink. Thats right, little, innocent Miss Blacklock.
 * **Denouement:** We discover that Miss Blacklock was really the murderer all along. Didn't see that one coming, did ya?
 * **Conclusion:** We discover that Miss Blacklock was not really Letitia Blacklock, but Charlotte Blacklock, her sister who had supposedly died years ago. What an ending!

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