Nine Tenants, Eight Keys
mystery◐ MatureEdda kicks the door hard, twice, and it bursts open. Room 9 is barely touched by the fire. The bed is made. There's a thick layer of dust on everything, except for one clean square on the desk, where something was just taken away.
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.'
What happens next?
1 ways forwardEdda 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.