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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
What a great smile this gave me. 🙂 Thank you.
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but, but … the butlers are only diversion because they are so cliché – it is the gardener, as everybody knows – because he has poison in his greenhouse, could bury the body without causing concern – and knows all the dark secrets of the family, as he is always where nobody expects him to be.
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Atta girl Fran – The Butlers Champion 👍😃😄😄😄
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You know how it is:
Motive (the dark family secrets), chance (can get away with getting rid of the body) and the means to do it (poison) – it MUST be the gardener!
The butler would have too much to lose, he would not even get a recommendation for his next position. Besides – the butler is too obvious, he would be prime-suspect.
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But where does he keep his knife collection? See, the butler can get the steak knife, have it sharpened weekly ….
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He does not need a knife, he uses poison – on fruits.
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Clever!
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Like the surviving spouse 😃
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Bodies as vertilizer, yes. But the butler is indoors and hears/sees a lot more. Plus, he has the uniform…
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But that would give him away – while nobody will notice when the gardener is wearing a new wooly jumper, the butler’s uniform would be missed … or the stains would be suspicious.
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But they are expert stain removers!
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You got a point in that – though you cannot remove stains of blood or chemicals as easily as – let’s say – red wine or chocolate.
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The tricks of the trade…
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Might be time for a u-turn then.
The butler, who was prime-suspect, just slightly hinted at the gardener, while he used the gardener’s poison to poison the fruits HE was supposed to have washed before he served them .. and doused them in poison instead ..
Or even a further twist – THIS is the gardener’s story … because it was the cook who did the murdering and he is romantically linked with the cook and wants to get the “more refined” rival out of his way. There – we did it – the abyss of a household with staff.
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Wanna write a book together? 😉
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I tried several times just to write a story with somebody else, only ONCE did it work out – and that was the achievement of the second person who was a genius. I think I am not made for teamwork in that department.
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Fair play, I bet only one in ten did it!
Hugs
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LOLOL
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Thanks for the chuckle.
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