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The details of the case
After dinner with the five others, Sir Michael went to his study alone at 9 p.m. He shut and locked the door and window of his study from the inside. When Mrs Flack took Sir Michael coffee at 9.30 p.m., he did not answer the door. They found him dead on the floor. -
Sir Michael Gray's death.
Sir Michael Gray was murdered and Katrina Kirby (K), was the detective involved in solving the case. -
K questions
K questions the five suspects who were in the house at the time of the murder: Lady Elizabeth, Colonel William Fawcett, Angela Everett, Andrew Cavell and Mrs Nancy Flack. -
Lady Elizabeth
Lady Elizabeth tells K about the other women in Sir Michael’s life, including his secretary, Angela Everett. Angela often worked with Sir Michael in the study after dinner. That night, Lady Elizabeth fought with her husband about Angela and then she spoke to her brother about it. -
details of the case (2)
In their investigation, the police discover that Sir Michael drank some whisky in the study. However, there was
no poison in it. He had been killed with something sharp through his heart. In the room, K saw that Sir Michael had been holding a whisky glass and that he had been in front of the fridge. There was water and blood on Sir Michael’s shirt and on the carpet. There were papers on his desk and the dictaphone was turned on. There was not a knife or gun in the room. -
Mrs Flack
Mrs Flack tells K that Sir Michael and his wife often had arguments and they had a fight that evening after dinner. Later that evening, Mrs Flack took Sir Michael some coffee at 9.30 p.m., as she always did. After they knocked down the door, they found his body. -
Angela Everett
Angela Everett tells K that she loved Sir Michael and that she knew he was leaving her 100,000 pounds in his will. She says she usually worked with Sir Michael in his study after dinner. However, that night he wanted to be alone, so she went into the garden by herself. -
Andrew Cavell
tells K he didn’t like his sister’s husband. Sir Michael often argued with Lady Elizabeth and also spent the company’s money on other women. Andrew heard that Sir Michael was planning to leave money to Angela in his will. Andrew told Sir Michael that he would stop him. -
Colonel Fawcett
Colonel Fawcett tells K of his friendship with Sir Michael for twenty-five years, ever since they served together in the army. He tells K that Sir Michael lent him 50,000 pounds. Fawcett lost that money gambling. Recently, Sir Michael had insisted that he wanted the money back. -
Mrs Flack (2)
Mrs Flack tells K she had worked with the Cavell family for forty years and had worked with Sir Michael and Lady Elizabeth for the past twenty- five. She is very loyal to them. She says Sir Michael had liked other women before but that Angela was different because Sir Michael listened to her. Mrs Flack had read a letter from Angela that told him he should leave his wife and run away with her. -
K calls them all together to discuss who killed Sir Michael
K tells them that when Sir Michael opened the freezer door to get ice for his whisky that it triggered a mechanism that shot an icicle in his heart and killed him. She also tells them what Sir Michael had been doing in the study that night. He wrote a note to Andrew telling him that he wasn’t leaving money to Angela in his will. He also left a message on his dictaphone telling Angela he wanted to leave her. -
The mystery is solved
K returns to the study to see who will check the mechanism in the fridge. Colonel Fawcett arrives first but tells K he was interested in seeing the mechanism. They find Mrs Flack listening to them outside the door. Mrs Flack admits that she put the mechanism in the fridge before 9 p.m. that night. She had wanted to kill Angela who always poured whisky for Sir Michael – except Angela didn’t work with him that night and Sir Michael died by mistake.