If'n you all don't figure it out and such by Saturday, I may even post the answer. But you're clever, I'm sure you'll get it.

Fun fact: this particular murder mystery was written by me in September, 2005 as an active exercise in reported speech for my TEFL instruction. The other English-as-a-foreign-language-teachers-in-training had quite a ball scapegoating the classmate no one liked.

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