Death at Fleming Manor: Episode 9 Walkthrough

• Floor Victim’s Mouth: Gold Crown
• Iron Pipe: Iron Pipe
• Crowbar: Crowbar

Scene 2: Exterior

No words in this scene.

Scene 3: Mortuary Fire Report

Open it from the upper right corner while you are inside the mortuary.

• Fire Report: Frederick, Wright, Contract, Sophia, Fleming, Stanley, Barker, Statement, Wilfred, Hampton, Playing Cards

Scene 4: Medical Book

Salicylates, Morphine, Barbiturates, Carbon Monoxide, Cyanide, Arsenic, Argentines, Succinylcholine, Asphyxia, Suffocation, Strangulation

Form 1: Death Certificate

• Setting the mortuary on fire looks like an attempt to destroy evidence, but that is not what the form asks. The only question is whether the victim died before or after the fire.
• The most common cause of death in a fire is smoke inhalation, and there is a forensic test that confirms whether that is what happened.
• Your main suspect for the victim’s identity is Stanley. Is there a photo that shows a distinguishing mark?
• Extreme heat stops a watch, because the tiny gears expand or melt. The watch reads 11:30 and five seconds. AM or PM is up to you to work out.
• Build a timeline for the date and time of death. Frank Harper found the body on the 12th, the fire report is dated Friday the 13th, and Hampton last saw him after dinner on Tuesday.
• If the victim is Stanley, his contract gives his birth year: 1912.
• Stanley’s contract includes room and board, and Hampton mentions that staff eat dinner on the grounds. That is part of what makes his disappearance strange: he was seen after dinner on Tuesday and then missed work and every meal after that.
• The mortuary has one door, latched from the outside, so it cannot be locked from inside. That alone does not rule out an accident, since people get locked in overnight at work all the time. What would prove foul play?
• If the door really was unlocked when the body was found, then someone came back to the scene and did not report the body. Why wouldn’t they?

Report 2: Identifying the Bodies

• Each of the eight cadavers has had a different person’s head attached. Body No. 1, for example, has a gunshot wound to the head and another to the chest, which matches no single victim you have seen. Go body by body and tick the head and the body to match each victim.
• The report on the right lists each victim’s cause of death and identifying marks. A few of them use information you have not seen before.
• Before you submit, check that all eight victims have a head and a body, and that they are in the right order: column 1 is the head and column 2 is the body.
• The eight victims all come from the last three episodes: the three bandits from Episode 6, the four Ainsworths and the acrobat.
• The bodies are burnt, so soft tissue and features are no use. Clyde’s tattoo or his snake bite swelling, for instance, will not help.
• The X-rays are the same ones from earlier cases, so a good memory goes a long way. If George’s dental report in Episode 5 took you a while, you will recognize his head straight away.
• The medical book explains how to tell a skeleton’s sex from the jaw and the hips. Every skeleton has a pelvis X-ray, but only use it when you have to, because all but two bodies have an easier trait. The jaws closely match the medical book photos. For the pelvis, use the angle of the subpubic area at the bottom center.
• Go person by person and leave the ones without clear traits for last.
• Be careful with Malcolm’s and Harry’s bodies, because their distinguishing traits overlap.
• Every body has the wrong head, so no body can have the head and body of the same person. That narrows the options.
• Two pairs can only be told apart by sex: Florence’s and George’s bodies, and Clara’s and Clyde’s heads.
• Bodies 4 and 7 are the ones with heads or bodies that can only be identified by sex.

Deceased No. 1: Clyde Bell

• Stab wound on the shoulder. Very short.
• Head: Number 4 (the only visible trait is a masculine jaw)
• Body: Number 5 (stab wound, short stature)

Deceased No. 2: Barry Sutton

• Very heavy. His left temple was cracked by an oar.
• Head: Number 8 (shattered left temple)
• Body: Number 2 (the only heavy one)

Deceased No. 3: Malcolm Briggs

• Killed by a shovel to the back of the skull, leaving a long gash.
• Fractures in both arms and hands.
• Head: Number 6 (gash on the back of the head)
• Body: Number 3 (hand and arm fractures)

Deceased No. 4: Harry Ainsworth

• Shot in the dead center of the forehead.
• You never saw it in his case, but the report says boxing deformed his finger bones.
• Head: Number 1 (shot dead center)
• Body: Number 6 (deformed finger bones)

Deceased No. 5: Clara Ainsworth

• Shot in the chest. One arm had an old fracture.
• Head: Number 7 (no traits, feminine skull)
• Body: Number 1 (bullet in the chest and the old fracture)

Deceased No. 6: George Ainsworth

• Fractured jaw, injured front teeth and a skull injury.
• Head: Number 5 (teeth, broken jaw and the skull fracture)
• Body: Number 7 (no traits, masculine pelvic angle)

Deceased No. 7: Florence Ainsworth

• Her hyoid bone broke when she was strangled.
• Head: Number 2 (broken hyoid)
• Body: Number 4 (feminine pelvic angle)

Deceased No. 8: Colin Riley

• Badly shattered skull. You never saw an X-ray of it.
• Broken clavicle and ribs.
• Head: Number 3 (shattered, no earlier X-ray)
• Body: Number 8 (broken clavicles)

Avery’s Questions

After you submit the report, Avery asks two questions.

• Why do we think the carved card was in the victim’s stomach? He swallowed it to protect the dying message.
• What does ice house mean? A place once used to store ice.

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