A brief silence fell over the dinner party
Jack stood, 'Walton a murderer?'

Inspector Pascall gave his summary,
'Motive, Boris was after his girlfriend and Walton knew that her head would be turned by Boris's wealth and standing . Walton was the last person to see Boris alive.
He assaulted him and I believe added poison to his wine'

'I beg your pardon' Eve was turning red and rising to boiling point

'Well how do you make out he's a drug dealer?' Jane asked

'We had a tip off and found cocaine in the glove compartment of Waltons's car!'
The inspector looked knowing and smug at his audience as two policemen came forward to grab Sam's arms.

Sam spoke up, 'Boris was a nasty piece of work. He knew all the comings and going's of Harbinger Towers,  but Eve is not my girlfriend...'

Eve  interrupted.... 'I most certainly am not, I've barely known Sam a week, I found him in a tunnel!'

All eyes turned towards Eve, PC Jenny Handley gave Eve a sideways look worthy of a West Virginian Lady, but then all looked back to Sam as he continued. 

'.... and I did not murder Boris. Murdering the son of the person who has hired you is not a good way to drum up business.  But the murderer is in this room.'

A gasp from those assembled as the clock dully sounded the half hour, da da dum.

'Boris was greedy, he wanted it all; wealth, control, women at his beck and call.  Yes he had an electronics business but that depended on those he employed coming up with the ideas and ultimately it was failing, failing big time. Boris could also see his inheritance being prised from his hands.  If Ed married Esme then his inheritance would diminish; if Ed died then Richard, who Boris despised....'

'Steady old chap' Richard interrupted.

'...would inherit' Sam continued, 'another chunk of the family fortune. And that was already going to be shared between all of Esme's children by her first marriage.'

'I still can't see how this gets you off the hook', the inspector insisted.

Sam continued
'Boris used surveillance cameras and found out the code for the safe.  He used the code to steal the emerald broach.   But it was fake!  Mary swapped the real broach for the fake one, probably when the late Duke was alive, after all she was his mistress.'

Mary turned a  right red. 

'And she hid it in the priests hole.  I guess you thought the old Duke owed you something'.

'Miserly olde sod' Mary scolded, he just used me, no wonder Boris turned out the way he did!'

'And', Sam explained.  Boris realised that you, Mary, and Ed were having an affair.  So  if Esme died, and I think that was both of your intentions.  The estate would belong to Ed and you Mary'. 

Esme me jumped up, tears streaming down her face. 'Oh Ed, How could you'.

'He could because your money was worth more to him than you were.'  Boris realised  and kidnapped Ed; he banged Ed on the head and hid him under the folly'.

'Golly' said Jack.

'No folly" said Sam. 'But Eve and I found Ed.  Boris started to blackmail Mary and Ed so Mary poisoned him'.

'And just how did I do that' Mary said icily.

'With your sowing kit'  continued Sam.  White Boris was sleeping you threaded a piece of yarn through a small hole that Ed had drilled through floor and ceiling from above Boris's head and you let the poison trickle down, like an artesian well, into  Boris's open snoring mouth.  Ed's idea was to marry Esme for the money and then bump her off and marry Mary'

'Arrest her' shouted Pascall, 'and that Ed too'

Esme was in floods of tears. 

'I'm so sorry Mi Lady' Sam said compassionately, ' But that's not the end of it.  Richard's new business is peddling drugs and Nancy Is his local accomplice. I guess Pascall your tip off was from a young lady? The same girl who borrowed my car keys from my coat yesterday.  Nancy you're busted'

'Arrest her' said Pascall, and Richard too'.

Richard made a move inside his jacket and as he brought out a gun, Sam hit him on the chin and he swirled into the arms of PC Jenny Hartley, who handcuffed him and sat him down in a seamless one move.

'You're a sly one Nancy aren't  you.  Trading drugs for Richard whilst having an affair with Jack.'

Jane stood up and slapped Jack, 'I knew you were carrying on with someone, that explains the fluffy handcuffs... and you told me they were a prototype for those on softer custodial sentences'

Sam once again turned to Nancy, ' I know it was you who put Lucinda's lap top in one of the bedrooms after Mr. Neat and tidy Jack took it from her office.  And from the bills and unpaid invoices on Boris's desk we know that Lucinda was siphoning money away from the estate, embezzling her Ladyship.'

Pascall piped up yet again, 'arrest Lucinda '

'Then Jack used this information to blackmail Lucinda so that he could buy up estate land cheap for lucrative real estate deals.'

'I, er...' Jack stammered.

Pascall again gave the order, 'Jack Derbyshire, I'm arresting you on suspicion of blackmail.'

Meanwhile Jane has been having an affair with Lucinda in an attempt to purge Harvinger Towers of its sheep; if you look,carefully you will find that many of the flock has been sold off and replaced with artificial plastic sheep.

'Well, handcuff here as well' Pascall said looking very bemused. 

'And that's about the sum of  it,' said Sam

Jenny Handley tried to console Lady Esme Dulitch as her whole family were taken into custody. 

Sam went to the window and gazed out across the meadows as most of the household were lead away to the police station. 

'I'll be seeing you at the station then Sam Walton, for a statement.'

'Can we go now', asked Eve. 'I'm fed up with how the other half lives and I haven't seen Fable for two days'

'Go collect your things' said Sam