by Winslow Portico, esq.

A pattern was recognized. Perhaps it was the silverware, in a distinct form of disorder, that finally clarified the situation. They were not to his taste, certainly. An eventual search divulged an item missing from the drawer. The result of a well-placed thrust of the cutlery, found appropriately protruding from the abdomen of the deceased tenant. Yet the culprit made a fatal mistake in depositing incontrovertible evidence behind the lounge. She was apprehended shortly thereafter.