K' First Case

The reader is introduced to Sir Michael Gray, the boss of Cavell Company, who was murdered, and Katrina Kirby (known as K) the detective involved in solving the case. K questions the five suspects who were in the house at the time of the murder: Lady Elizabeth, Colonel William Fawcett, Angela Everett (Sir Michael's young secretary), Andrew Cavell and Mrs. Nancy Flack (the Gray Michael's longtimehousekeeper).
The details of the case are outlined. After dinner with the five others, Sir Michael went to his study alone at 9pm. He shut and locked the door and window of his study from the inside. When Mrs. Flack took Sir Michael coffee at 9.30pm, he didn't answer the door. They found him dead on the floor. In their investigation, the police discover Sir Michael drank some whisky in the study.However, there was no poison in the whisky. He had been killed with something sharp through his heart. In the room, K, saw that Sir Michael has been holding a whisky glass and that he had been in front of the fridge. There was water and blood on Sir Michael's shirt and on the carpet. There were papers on his desk and the Dictaphone was turned on. There wasn't a knife or gun in the room.
K,considers Sir Michael's evening routine. He always had a bath, changed his clothes and had an evening drink before having dinner at 8pm.
Mrs. Flack tells K, that sir Michael and his wife often had arguments and they had a fight that evening after dinner. Later that evening, Mrs. Flack took Sir Michael some coffee at 9:30pm., as she always did. After they knocked down the door, they found his body.Lady Elizabeth tells K about the other women in Sir.
Michael’s life, including his secretary, Angela Everett.
Angela often worked with Sir Michael in the study after dinner. That night, Lady Elizabeth fought with her husband, about Angela and then she spoke to her brother about it.
Colonel Fawcett tells K, of his friendship with Sir Michael for twenty-five years, ever since they served togetherin the army. He tells K that Sir Michael lent him 50,000 pounds. Fawcett lost that money gambling. Recently, Sir Michael had insisted that he wanted the money back.
After that, Angela Everett tells K, that she loved Sir Michael and that she knew he was leaving her 100,000 pounds in his will. She says she usually worked with Sir Michael in his study after dinner. However, that night he wanted tobe alone, so she went into the garden by herself.

Next, Andrew Cavell, Lady Elizabeth’s brother, tells K he didn’t like his sister’s husband. Sir Michael often argued with Lady Elizabeth and also spent the company’s money on other women. Andrew heard that Sir Michael was planning to leave money to Angela in his will. Andrew told Sir Michael that he would stop him.
Finally, Mrs. Flack tells Kshe had worked with the Cavell family for forty years and had worked with Sir Michael and Lady Elizabeth for the past twenty-five. She is very loyal to them. She says Sir Michael had liked other women before but that Angela was different because Sir Michael listened to her. Mrs. Flack had read a letter from Angela that told him he should leave his wife and run away with her. K, calls them alltogether to discuss who killed Sir Michael and how … and why!
K tells them that when Sir Michael opened the freezer door to get ice for his whisky that it triggered a mechanism that shot an icicle in his heart and killed him.
She also tells them what Sir Michael had been doing in the study that night. He wrote a note to Andrew telling him that he wasn’t leaving money to Angela in his will. He alsoleft a message on his Dictaphone telling Angela he wanted to leave her. Because everybody was under investigation, they all stay in the house that night. K returns to the study to see who will check the mechanism in the fridge. Colonel Fawcett arrives first but tells K he was interested in seeing the mechanism and that Sir Michael made it himself. They find Mrs. Flack listening to them outside the...