Nouvelle Anglaise

-Hello Mr. Semloh, I am Mary O’Connor’s Sister. She is dead yesterday afternoon.

- HelloMrs O' Connor. Are you talking about Mary O’Connor the famous actress ?

-Yes. I’m so sad, because I had not met her since two months. I can't stop thinking that death is very weird.

-Oh, Do you have any clues ? 

-No, I don’t but I think Maria, her housekeeper could give you more information.

-Ok, I will question her tomorrow afternoon.

-Come at two o’clock, at 250 Brixton Avenue. 

 This is how my investigation began :

It was 2 o’clock p.m and I was ringing at the door. Maria opened the door. She was looking tired and the atmosphere was tense.

-Hello Mister Semloh, I’m Maria, the housekeeper. Come with me in the sitting room ; it’s here that we found the body.

-Who found it ?

-Me and Mr Steve John, a journalist working for people magazine, who she was to meet at five and a half. He is waiting in the kitchen.

I follow the housekeeper in the kitchen. Mr Steve John was attending to me. 

-Hello, Mr Semloh, I am Steve John.

-Nice to meet you ! What did yu see when you entered the room ?

- I saw her n the chair, with her tea cup empty on the table.

- Who is the last person who saw Miss O’Connor ?

 Maria answered that her old friend Georges Brown was the last person who saw her two days before the murder. They had tea together and she heard them argue for a while.

 I took the bus, and I came back to my office. When I arrived, my assistant Jennifer was there and she gave me the autopsy results. She was killed by poison. Traces of colchicum have been found, this was strange....Colchicum is a toxic plant, which is very dangerous and it can kill humans ! Secondly I asked my assistant to find Mary O’Connor will and I discovered that George the old friend and the sister were the two people on the will …

After this, I went to George Brown's. He is an old man with white hair and a little hunchback. He talked me about his affection for Mary for one hour. She has been her best friend since childhood. He told me he met her 2 days before the murder. He didn't say anythning about their arguing when I questioned him. I was perplexed and uncertain. Why did he lie to me ? I asked him where he was at the time of the murder and he answered he was in the train. He showed me his ticket. A train ticket for London to Oxford. He had an alibi...

As we came back in the sitting room, I saw the empty cup : I thought she was dead just after have having her tea

I decided to go in the kitchen to examine if I got fingerprints or any evidence, and next to the teapot, I found a white hair ! I understood that Mr. Brown was guilty of the murder :

Two days before, Mary and George argued and Mary decided to

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