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....W.T......PERHAPS THE MOST CONFOUNDIN
G CASE...OF MY CAREER. CERTAINLY IT WAS
...EASY TO FIGURE SYDNEY WAS TO BE...THE
VICTIM--THE INSULTS HE WAS...REHEARSING
FOR HIS APPEARANCE ON...THE JOAN RIVERS
SHOW WERE NOT...WELL RECEIVED BY THE OT
HER MEMBERS...OF THE MURDER CLUB.....BUT
WHO WOULD SHUT THAT MOTOR MOUTH?...EACH
HAD A MOTIVE BUT IT WAS FINALLY...DECID
ED BY SECRET LOTTERY AND...CLAUDIA'S NUM
BER CAME UP. ALL SHE...HAD TO DO WAS GE
T SYDNEY INTO...AGATHA'S ROOM AT MIDNIGH
T AND "BLOW...HIS MIND."....MIKE STAMMER
--A FACE ONLY A MOTHER...COULD LOVE. AGA
THA WAS OLD ENOUGH TO...BE HIS MOM. BUT
NONE OF THE OTHER..."SLEUTHS" GUESSED I
T. NONE KNEW OF...HER SECRET AND MISERA
BLE MARRIAGE TO...SYDNEY. AGATHA BLACKM
AILED SYDNEY...INTO SILENCE YEARS AGO AN
D MIKE...MAYPOLE WENT OFF TO THE FOSTER
HOME....SURE MIKE NOTICED SHE WAS ALWAYS
...FIXING HIS HAIR AND TRYING TO FEED...
HIM SANDWICHES BUT NEVER GUESSED...SHE W
AS HIS MOTHER!....THEN AGGY'S BROTHER MO
RRIS...THE MOVIE MOGUL LEFT A COOL MILLI
ON...IN HER TRUST TO HIS LONG LOST...NEP
HEW. SYDNEY DEMANDED...A CUT SO AGATHA
DECIDED TO PRUNE THE...FAMILY TREE, SYDN
EY-WISE A LA KNIFE,...PATIO STYLE. SHE'
D KEEP MIKE IN THE...DARK AND BUY UP ALL
HER OWN BOOKS...TO GET BACK ON THE BEST
SELLER LIST....WHAT A MOTHER!....PROFESS
IONAL JEALOUSY'S AN UGLY WORD...BUT THEN
SO IS MURDER! OH CLAUDIA...DIDN'T CARE
ABOUT SYDNEY'S HUGE...SUCCESS WITH HIS
TWO LINE RHYMES....SHE WAS INTERESTED IN
THE BIG STUFF-...THREE LINES OR MORE-TH
E TYPE OF...WRITING THAT SEEMED TO COME
SO...EASILY TO AGATHA. SUCCESS, MONEY,.
..FAME--SHE HATED HER FOR IT.....THE FAK
E SCHEME TO OUST SYDNEY FROM...THE MYSTE
RY CLUB WAS JUST TO LURE...AGATHA TO THE
LIBRARY AT MIDNIGHT....SHE WAS EVEN BRI
NGING HER OWN GUN!...AGATHA WOULD BE AN
ACCOMPLICE TO...MURDER ALL RIGHT. HER O
WN!....THIS SILLY SCENARIO HAD ME SUNK F
OR...A SECOND. CLEARLY CLAUDIA COULD HAV
E...KILLED ANY CONVENIENT CHUMP. SEEMS.
..SHE WAS MURDEROUSLY MAD THAT MALE...ME
MBERS OF THE MURDER CLUB OUTNUMBER...THE
FEMALES. SO.. POISON ONE ON THE...PATIO
AND PLOP THEM INTO THE POND,...PREVENT
THEM FROM BOBBING WITH...BRICKS IN THEIR
BRITCHES.....WHY PETER? IT WAS A DECIS
ION...DETERMINED BY THE DISPOSAL DILEMMA
....WITHOUT A FORK LIFT HOW COULD SHE...
FLIP SYDNEY INTO LOCH NESS? STAMMER...W
AS A BIT TOO HEAVY AND BESIDES,...THAT P
IG WOULD DIRTY HER GOWN. BUT...PUFFY FLI
MSEY WOULD PRACTICALLY FLOAT...OVER THE
WALL. THE KIND OF CRIME SHE...COULD CARR
Y OFF..
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