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Nine Tenants, Eight Keys
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Edda lifts the edge of the clean square and finds a photo slid under the desk pad, missed by whoever grabbed the rest. A young woman, laughing, arms around all eight survivors when they were younger. On the back, in pen: 'Dahlia, the night before.'
Edda turns the photo over to the survivors. 'Tell me what happened to her, or I arrest all eight of you for the fire.' They cave. Dahlia was their friend, dead of a fever eleven years ago. Too poor to bury her right, they hid her and kept her room a shrine. The fire was just an old wire, no killer at all.
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