Mystic Murder-Murder is an art, is a story written by Deepak Senthilkumar from April 2008 to December 2008
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

8. The ignorant arrogance



56 is a disease. This is easy thought James. A two lettered disease. It must be TB (tuberculosis) thought James. xxxxTBxxx. What could be the word? James was thinking hard. We 789 to live. We eat to live, must be the answer. This leaves the word as xxxxTBEAT. This was simple, there was only one such word James knew, it was HEARTBEAT. DD was a cardiac surgeon after all. That must have been the clue given by SOS thought James.

The other clue also falls in place. If you have 234 you can 1234. Of course, if you have an ear you can hear. He has left so many clues for the police. He is a dangerous person thought James. It would be a great challenge to track down a criminal who could use his brain very well.

James was reading the second letter again. I'm wise, sensible, red-hot fury ‘What if it was an anagram?’, James had a sudden flash. He took out a paper and wrote some of the words possible from the first sentence.

Fertile, honest, he, hero, benefit, be, rift, heroism, identifier, idle, idiot, housewife.

James paused. He couldn’t help laughing at the last two words he formed. He continued again,

Series, Mussolini, first, my, in, mentor, meltdown, would...

He had formed enough in his word pool. James had a different way of solving the anagrams. He would form a word pool and pick words from that pool for solving the anagram. This method was taught to him by one of his school teachers. He started to form different sentences with the words from the word pool.

Fishiest or wisely numbered.

Horrified eyes win stumbles.

Worthy resumes in disbelief.

He would be first in my series.

He would be first in my series. ‘This is it’, thought James. Does this mean that he is going to continue his murders? James decided that he should take the help of a computer to solve the puzzle. It would help him to solve the anagrams faster. He noticed an ignorant arrogance in the clues of SOS. He had mixed normal sentences with anagrams in his clues.

I will give you a clue in DD’s home. “Uncle Steve, Was there any clue in our home?” asked James.

“Yes James, there was a clue. Look at this photo”, showed Stephen.

In the photo James saw there a huge ellipse drawn in red colour (it must be blood) and inside that ellipse a Pears soap, a Nokia cell phone and a Sprite bottle were lying. And below that a phrase “I, now touched insult, save the next person if you can” was written.

“What connects these three items Uncle Steve?”, asked James.

“No idea James”, said Stephen.

“Thanks for all your help uncle Steve. Shall I have these two letters and the photograph uncle?”, asked James.

“You can have the photograph, I have many copies of the photo but not the letters”, said Stephen.

“No issues uncle, the photo alone is enough. I will note these letters in my cell phone”, he then drafted the letters in his cell phone. “May I leave now”, asked James.

“Sure James, get back to me whenever you need help”, said Stephen.

James left the Commissioner office. ‘SOS - who was it?’ From the handwriting he could tell it was a very confident man. ‘What was SOS’s wish? Why he wanted to kill DD, will I stop him before he kills yet another Person?’ James was posting many such questions into his mind. Only time should answer all these questions.

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