12. The next victim

‘Angelika was born on 4 July 1978. She is a prominent actress in both Tamil and Hindi film industries. She rose to fame with her roles in Hindi movies, One man show and Never say, Never die.

Born to Ebenezer Jacob Francis and Christiana Francis, in Chennai, the Roman Catholic actress got her higher education in Ethiraj College, Chennai. Later, she modeled and won Miss Chennai in 1996, Miss India Miss Beautiful Smile in 1998. In school, she participated in several cultural activities especially the dramas.

She started her career as a model, appearing in many TV advertisements including that of Royal Jewellers and Fairever.

Angelika first made her debut in films when she was offered a small cameo in the film Love makes life beautiful. However, the first movie in which she signed up to enact the role of the leading lady was Rose by any other name. A string of hits marked the beginning of her career a great success. After a dozen of hits she was signed by Sprite beverages, Nokia Phones and Pears Soap……..’

James stopped reading. ‘She was the connection between the three, Angelika! She must be the next. How to save her?’, James thought. He immediately called Stephen.

“Uncle Steve. I have an important matter to be discussed. I found the next victim, it is actress Angelika”, said James.

“Oh! How did you find James?”, asked Stephen.

“Uncle, I will explain that later to you. We must first protect her”, said James.

“James please wait. I have another call”, said Stephen.

After a minute, Stephen came back in line. He told to James, “James, we cannot protect Angelika any more. She has already been murdered. That was the call I received”.

James was shocked. He told, “Uncle! SOS is acting too fast. I would like to be at the place of crime soon. May I know where she was killed?”

Stephen told him the place and James immediately started off. She was killed inside her caravan during her shoot for the film Maiden over.

James has never viewed any film shoot. The place cannot be exactly termed as a film shoot either. It was crowded more with the Press reporters and Police rather than the people who originally to film belong unit.

‘Angelika was a very beautiful lady. But now she was nothing more than a corpse. What is the motive behind the murder of SOS?’, James was thinking while examining the place.

As usual SOS left a clue this time also. He had left a letter with the following information:

The wall clock inside a mirror will show the time as 3 hours 40 minutes when I kill him, that would be on a prime day. Identify my victim from this: 44-2-777-44-2-0-66-444-3-44-444. You will find it once you stop predicting.

- SOS

I'm feeble, polite ogre.

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James was very disappointed that he couldn’t save Angelika. He found the next one was Angelika. SOS was challenging him. He was playing with the abilities of entire police department. If he allows this to continue then it would be his second defeat to an unknown stranger.

‘I will get this guy before his next murder’, James made a resolution.