Chapter 1: What suspicions does Sherlock have about Richard Brunton?
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Hi, I'm Marianna.
Hello there, I'm Reginald. It doesn't get any worse. Forgive me for not engaging more fully at the funeral. I was quite hopelessly in my own head. The old man and I had complexities.
Yes, well, everyone else had a marvellous relationship with him. So perhaps the problem wasn't him. For God's sake, Sherlock, what's happening with this fire? It is a castle. After all his renovations, it would seem the plumber was next on the list.
I'm gonna walk around a bit, try and warm myself up. Some old Musgraves, royalist fanboy Musgraves, I should add, built this place for defence. Yeah, well, that shiny knight over there fought out the next civil war, the big one, 1640s. I'm not overreacting, am I? There's a battle axe on the floor.
Yes, wielded somewhat recently.
Oh, yes, the battle axe. Medieval martial axe, I should say, of the Angevin period, to be exact. Yes, that was me. The table is Burl Elm from the Musgrave Elm that grew on this land for nearly 600 years. I do not wish its polished memory to be stained by pizza cheese. Sorry. As I follow the noise, it takes me past that hallway, and I reach for it. The battleaxe. That's right.
Braced myself, and I threw open the door and say, What the devil are you doing? And there he is, Richard Brunton. Feet up on the old bureau, his perusing papers, his swinging keys on his finger like he owns the place. The following morning, nothing. Gloves, TV and hats. Oh, you beauty. A deerstalker. Blimey, it's quite the coat there, Reginald. Bless you, John. She's made of links.
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Chapter 2: How do the characters react to the discovery under the ice?
I could say the same.
I think, um... Yes, come. Go and warm up.
Quite the library, isn't it? Crazy that these castles were built for wars and big battles, but they all have dining rooms and libraries.
Excuse me, soldiers can read.
What does this say, then?
Er... I don't know, looks like Latin. Gobbledygook to me, mate. Oh, I am so cold.
I can't. Oh, it's like cold got into my bones.
Oh...
What's the latest on the plumber?
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Chapter 3: Who is the frozen body found in the lake?
But where, John? Where are these papers exactly?
Well, you're one year older now and it looks like your eyesight is going, because, hello, right in front of you, babe.
Ah, silly me, of course. Let's have a read. Oh, goodness. Well, isn't this a little problematic for Musgrave's record of events? Perhaps I need this magnifying glass. Let me see. Nope, nothing.
They're blank pages.
They are all blank pages. This is merely unused paper from a notepad. What are you saying? I'm saying this story doesn't hold water. Reginald failed to mention the battle axe until we discovered it. He failed to mention the confrontation until we prompted it. He failed to mention the body in his lake. Which he may not know about.
And now he has clearly misled us by suggesting papers from this bureau were being perused by Richard Brunton. We must have a motive. We need it. Why dispose of Brunton? And who is the man in the ice? What is his connection?
Hello?
Let me go check. Hello? Reginald?
Well, good news, John. It looks like we have a new listener.
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Chapter 4: What clues suggest a deeper connection to the murders?
And some of our lunch specials today. We have instant noodles in a Chinese curry broth. Cream of chicken soup from a manufacturer that went into administration in 2019. And for Mr Detective, it's a bag of quick and easy pasta. Quick and easy pasta? No, quick and easy. You boil the kettle, pour the water in the bag, and hey presto, a lovely little pasta and sauce.
Well, to quote the packaging, in two minutes, hey pesto. Yeah, it's great, isn't it? Oh, choose your aid. We've got PowerAid, GatorAid, LucasAid, LemonAid, CherryAid.
Do you have any first aid for when I get a stomach ulcer after this meal? Right, can we just recap?
He said he didn't trust any food coming from Reginald Musgrave, not until we've made some progress. That's what he said, not me.
I choose poison to death. Why didn't you just go get pizza?
Because the pizza place isn't open until this evening. Besides, we had pizza last night.
Yeah, and that was fine.
Come, eat. We must refuel. I don't think I've been so eager to close a case for some time.
But what... What are the next steps? God, I'm so cold.
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Chapter 5: What evidence points to Reginald Musgrave's involvement?
See?
John, could you step in for the plumber, please? Maybe we wouldn't be completely frozen. Frozen?
Frozen. That's exactly it. The pipes will just be frozen. It's got nothing to do with the refurb. How do you know exactly? Because this, this will just be water, tank water, won't it? For the hot water, that would just be some big cylinder that heats with electricity. I bet Reginald's just turned it on so we can shower and stuff.
Excuse me, I'm trying to read the instructions for my pasta.
Yeah, and I'm getting us some heating, mate. Well, I see oil in this tank the size of my bedroom, so that rules out a fuel problem. and follow the oil pipe along here to the castle wall. Yeah, that's where it goes into the property, as I thought. Absolutely frozen solid. So then we pour the boiled water for Sherlock's pasta over this pipe here, which looks like it's heading from the oil tank.
Yes, there we go. Thaw out, you bastard.
Yeah.
Hey, it's me. Try the boiler now.
Oh, OK.
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Chapter 6: What is revealed about the relationship between Sherlock and his past?
Hey, what's that? What's what? On your phone.
His number. Is that him? Oh, the profile picture, yes. That's Roy, I suppose. I've seen that, yeah. Balancing a pint on his head. It's good, isn't it?
You all right? The plumber is dead. What did you do? I didn't kill him. I just got this off heat.
What is it?
A profile picture.
Look. Holy shit. This is Roy Howells.
Sherlock, that was the face. Our frozen man.
That was him. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
He murdered Brunton. Then he murdered the plumber.
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Chapter 7: How does the investigation unfold after the body is discovered?
That's all we need. Thank you.
Hello there, Roy. Shame we're meeting like this.
I'm going to maybe wait outside for this, I think.
Yeah, yeah, no problem.
This. What's this here?
That is just frost erythema. He'll have a few on this side if he was in that fixed position under the ice. Very possible, seeing as it's a lake and it's been so cold. Yeah, see here, it's not...
bruising it's just surface level he does have some grazing something cut deep into his hands could be stone from the looks of it yeah could easily be from the bed of the lake to be honest um he looks so pristine yeah no discoloration no bloat no smell no all because of the conditions Yeah, yeah, too cold. Too cold.
You wouldn't want to be taking a body out of a lake in the summertime after three weeks of being down there, mate. I certainly wouldn't be doing this inside a tent, that's for sure. But in these freezing temperatures, not too bad.
No sign of an axe wound, perchance? Nope. Hidden injury, then? Musgrave was always wily.
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