"Death on the Cards" Interviews

WARNING: THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT DESIGNED TO BE READ THROUGH FROM START TO FINISH, BUT TO BE READ VIA THE LINKS IN EACH SUSPECT'S MURDER FILE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because Bolivia holds some very upsetting and unpleasant memories for me and I don’t like it being mentioned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accepted truth is a tragic accident took ten men from my division. The real truth is I knowingly sent one of my officers to his death. I despised one of my inferior officers, a jumped-up little oaf, constantly ignoring everything I said. So I sent him on a recon right into a camp of Bolivian guerrillas. I didn’t know until it was too late that he’d taken nine others with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certainly not! If the truth ever came out, I would be ruined.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Vivienne was suggesting was farcical- there was no way Magenta could prove anything she had said, so in my mind there was no cause for panic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. She came into the Billiard Room, quite distressed and told me what Vivienne had said to her. I calmed Elizabeth down and, after Magenta’s little outburst, we went to the Lounge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. We popped into the Dining Room to see Mrs. White. I wanted to give her the spanner I’d found in the Billiard Room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The situation I am currently in is a very delicate one. If my stepmother found out, she would go mad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am seeing a married man in London. Our relationship is quite simple: he buys me lots of nice things and I don’t tell his wife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I thought if I told them she was going to do something that extreme, they’d be sure to get rid of her. They’re both intensely proud people. The idea of public exposure is abhorrent to both of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. The first time I heard about it was when Magenta started shouting about it. In fact, apart from showing her to the Study, I wasn’t in that corner of the Grange at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went directly to the Lounge from the Ballroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subjects such as mythologies and superstitions are often fictitious anyway. Besides, I didn’t think anyone would ever find out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to frighten her into silence about the content of my book. It was a silly move in retrospect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He told me that he deliberately threw Christopher Hardenbrook overboard when Brown realised Hardenbrook was after his mistress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. Once I left after the reading, I spent the rest of the evening in the Library. The first I heard about anything to do with the crystal ball was when Magenta started screaming about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finished reading a book in the Library and headed over to the Lounge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I left it in the Study.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’d just got back in touch after a long period of silence and I thought it might be fun to see her. I couldn’t know what was going to happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t know. It’s been a shock, to be honest. I’m sure Jack did love me. But with him not being here... I can’t ask him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. Absolutely not. I thought she had got over it all. She clearly hadn’t.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. He was in the Billiard Room. We talked for a while about what Vivienne had told us both, then after Magenta’s screaming fit, we went to the Lounge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael and I stopped briefly in the Dining Room to give Mrs. White a spanner and then we went to the Lounge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I left it on the Billiard Room table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do not believe in clairvoyancy. Only God sees all, and to claim that power is tantamount to blasphemy. I could not condone her presence here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You don’t know the Ten Commandments? Dear, oh dear. The seventh says ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’ and the tenth says not to covet anything of your neighbours, including his wife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A very dear lady whom I am very close to. Her husband is terminally ill, dying of cancer, and I have been comforting them both. Of late, and I am not proud of this, my relationship with Mrs. Pemberton has developed into an adulterous one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The parish council would certainly discipline me. Apart from that, there would be a great deal of trouble. My parishioners look to me for a spiritual example. A fine example I would be, to be a known and exposed adulterer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I returned to the Kitchen to help Mrs. White. I stayed there until we heard Miss Rose screaming about her crystal ball. After that, Mrs. White went to the Dining Room and I went in search of Miss Rose to tell her to go. That’s when I found the body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. I took it with me when I left the Conservatory and left it in the Kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’d put a dose of poison in the glass meant for Miss Rose and naturally I didn’t want Miss Vivienne to drink it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before I came to the Grange, I worked at Gossingham Hall for Lord and Lady Teal. I was nursemaid to Lily, their daughter. One night, I got a little tipsy and dozed off in a chair. I woke up to find the house on fire, and I couldn’t get to Lily to save her. She died in the fire, sadly. Poor little mite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. I had to tell the family when I started working here. So long as I stayed off the bottle, we’d be fine, they said. And I’ve more or less stuck to that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I finished off in the Kitchen then went to the Dining Room to finish tidying up in there. Colonel Mustard and Mrs. Peacock came in while I was in there and the colonel gave me back the spanner he and the professor had borrowed ages ago. I left it in there by mistake, went back to the kitchen to clear up, grabbed the bottle of poison and went to the Lounge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. I went nowhere near it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was worried because I’ve become involved in some trouble with Dr Black’s finances, and he might find out about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve been embezzling small amounts of money from him and other clients for the best part of a year. I was hoping to use it to pay for my wedding with Emily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because there was no other reason apart from her finding out about my embezzlement that would mean our engagement was over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. What she had said at the séance was more than enough for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took the blunderbuss from the Lounge wall and went through the secret passageway to the Conservatory. I was ready to kill Miss Rose, but she wasn’t in there thankfully. Then Captain Brown came in and calmed me down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, but not deliberately. In the initial argument between Captain Brown and myself, he tried to grab the blunderbuss from me. We struggled over it and it went off, shattering a pane of glass in the Conservatory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My session with Magenta led me to realise that there were certain circumstances that meant we could not marry. It broke my heart to have to do so, but it was for the best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During my reading, Magenta asked me for a personal item of mine that would allow her to get a certain vibe that would aid the session. I was so distressed after the reading, I forgot to get it back.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because I didn’t want my dirty laundry being washed in public. Surely everybody felt the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s private. Suffice it to say, it has little bearing on this horrendous crime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I headed towards the Study to see Magenta and tell her not to expose us. But when I got to the Hall, I lost my nerve and went to the Lounge instead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I dropped it in the Hall as I went to the Study.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because I was unsure of what he was going to say. Nobody in the room knew the truth and I didn’t want to deal with a potentially huge revelation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I filled in the blanks from what I’d told him in the Billiard Room. The truth is Christopher Hardenbrook didn’t accidentally drown. I found out he was romantically involved with a woman I was close to and, after an argument, I pushed him overboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went to the Conservatory to clear my head. While I was in there, Graham Slate-Grey came in with the blunderbuss ready to do in Miss Rose. I talked him round.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. After the séance… that was enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graham and I went straight there from the Conservatory after the shouting match.