7: The Mystery Of The Empty Room

They are suddenly standing in Basil Maguire’s bedroom. His body is gone! They hear footsteps running down the hall. They follow the furore. Tennyson discovers that it leads to the room where they found Maguire dead. They sneak down to find a room full of detectives and Maguire’s body back in the same position they found him! Janine whispers that it’s just like Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express, maybe they all did it? 

Tom Moriarty notes he’s been bludgeoned. Deirdre Dupin is shocked. Jack Street is more shifty than usual. Noel Lovejoy reckons it was a nasty accident. Insults and crazy theories are flung about. It’s a room full of ego’s, all competing to solve a murder. 

Jimmy Kolchak demands Dupin phone the police but Dupin refuses. She says someone has killed Ireland’s greatest detective and that whoever solves the murder will become Ireland’s greatest detective. It’s the perfect case! McGrain notices something and tries to whisper to Tennyson. He leans forward, but trips on a cable and both of them crash through the door, landing to the ground. Everyone stops and stares at them. Moriarty shouts: ‘It was them!’ Deirdre Dupin immediately radio’s for security. 

Our heroes are forced to disband, escaping down the corridor. What a horrid cliffhanger: our detectives are now the suspects!