Where the hell is Edgar?
Not a Eurovision entry but a tricky murder mystery
“Why will you say that I am mad?” the suspect asked. The words haunted me, as I returned to the crime scene. I had heard them before but could not remember where. SOCOs said the weapon was a sharp knife, a scalpel or razor blade. Cause of death: loss of blood, multiple wounds, neck and left eye. Nothing was found at the scene. I stood in the room looking around for inspiration. It was then that I saw it on the bookshelf. Poe, Collected Works. Inside, I found the cut-throat razor, gouged into page 284: The Tell-Tale Heart.
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Illustration by Harry Clark, public domain courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. From a frontispiece for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Raymond G. Taylor
Author based in Kent, England. A writer of fictional short stories in a wide range of genres, he has been a non-fiction writer since the 1980s. Non-fiction subjects include art, history, technology, business, law, and the human condition.
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Comments (3)
A wrenching (Allen) tale of a person gone mad from too much reading. One question remains: will he end up in the sanitarium or the Poe-key?
Oooo I like this, just a little tease that tells the whole story
Ray, You know I love a good mystery and a good Drabble. This is both! Well done!