Feathers in the Wind
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 189 of 200.
Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, July 8, 1943, 10 am. In a colonial mansion at Cable Beach, gold magnate Ambrose Tallis, 68, was found dead in his bed at 7 am, after a night of storms.
Blows to the head. The body, the mosquito net and the mattress had been burned, and pillow feathers covered everything, blown around by the fan nobody had switched off. The prospector's pickprospector's pick A heavy hand tool with a pointed iron head, used to break rock and dig for ore. that hung on the bedroom wall is gone.
His wallet and gold watch were still on the bedside table. It was not a robbery.
Three people were in this house last night. One of them could not sleep through the sound of the rain.
Hall of a mansion in the Bahamas, 1943, after the storm, an untouched coffee tray.
Suspects
Everett PinderLand broker, the victim's partner and friend, slept in the guest room, 58
Gilles FontanetYachtsman, the victim's son-in-law, married to Celia Tallis against her father's will, 33
Hyacinth RolleThe mansion's housekeeper, 46
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