Hello and welcome to Mystery Thread,I'm your host devontaxt.Please read the rules to make this as smooth as possible.

1.Please don't cheat,Use your minds,If you don't,Ill right my own and you'll have to heh heh.

2.Please read before answering so no one puts the same answer.

3.You can earn Viz if answered correctly,Even more Viz if you explain your answer. 50 Viz if right, 125 Viz if right and explained.

4.This is for fun i love mystery's,riddles,and poems.i just want to show my passion, can we all just get alone?

5. My name is Darius Harris(yes it rhymes don't know why,asks my mom.)im 19 years old,and live in Alabama,just want you to know me.

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9.I don't copy Ill show who wrote the mystery and if you got one send it to me, you get full credit and get 100Viz if it good,the answer is good,well explained,and makes sense.

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Well are you ready here we go!Bytan Smith.Warning the following mystery has  the word (blood) please be advised!

The old Underwood typewriter, as well as much of the small wooden desk on which it rested, was spattered with blood. On the floor by the desk lay the body of novelist Paul Katz, his face destroyed by a blast from the shotgun that lay beside him.

Detective Claire Ball of the Vermont state police turned her eyes from the body and the overturned desk chair and surveyed the interior of the small, sparsely furnished cabin. The single bed was meticulously made, but clothes were hanging out of the dresser drawers and scattered on the floor. Urban novels and books on sociology and deep sea fishing were piled on the dining table, the TV, the bedside table, and the floor.

Fan letters, forwarded by Katz's publisher, were piled on the small table by the cabin's only armchair and stuffed in the desk drawers. The other contents of the drawers were typing paper, envelopes, pencils, and handwritten story notes. Beside the typewriter were manuscript pages from Chapter 19 of Katz's latest novel.

Except for a tiny refrigerator and a wastebasket, both almost empty, there was no other furniture. Ball was surprised to notice that the single room had no adjoining bathroom or closet. Katz had relied on an outhouse, a well, and a nearby stream for his personal hygiene. The cabin, on a dirt road three miles from Cedarville, had one door and three small windows, one in front and one on each of the two sides.

Fingerprinter John Rumore approached Ball.

"I got a good print of his right index finger on the trigger, Claire," he said.

"The handwriting on the notes indicates that he was right-handed," replied Ball. She shook her head. "I've read his stuff, John. He wrote about urban street gangs. Formula stuff-- every novel had twenty-one chapters and ten deaths-- but not bad."

"I never read him," said Rumore laconicallly. "Where's Walt?"

"Gone to see Ed Welenck, who mows the lawn here on Mondays. He may have seen something. I'll be outside."

Ball stepped out onto the freshly mowed lawn to speak with Mary Cashman, the owner of the cabin, and a neighbor, John Keenan.

"Mr. Keenan," said Ball, "you discovered the body about noon, I understand."

"Yes." Keenan stroked his bushy red beard in agitation. "I was coming up the path to see if Paul wanted to buy raffle tickets for the Cedarville Historical Society. We're raffling off a weekend in New York City. I heard a gunshot inside and froze for a few seconds. Hearing nothing more, I opened the door and looked in-- it was unlocked-- saw Paul lying there, and hightailed it back to my house to call the police."

"Was anyone else in the room?"

Keenan shook his head.

"Mrs. Cashman," said Ball, turning to the owner, "how long had you been renting this cabin to Mr. Katz?"

"This was his seventh summer. He liked to come up here to write. Why, he wouldn't leave the cabin except to wash until he had the first draft typed up. He even paid me extra to check his P. O. box, drop off his mail, and bring him food and supplies while he was writing. A lot of the folk around here, including me, want to be writers, so we were glad to have him here and respected his privacy."

"When were you here last?"

"Saturday. I brought him some letters and a ham sandwich."

"Any problems with him?"

Cashman cleared her throat nervously. "Well, I raised the rent this summer, for the first time in three years. He grumbled some about that, but still paid every two weeks in advance. He was a sloppy fellow, but not a bad tenant. Don't know why he would have killed himself."

"Mr. Keenan," asked Ball, "did you know Mr. Katz well?"

"Not particularly. I met him only last summer at the general store in Cedarville, and had never been here to the cabin before."

Officer Walter Hinkel approached Ball, who excused herself and took him aside.

"I interviewed Welenck, Claire," he reported. "He confirms that he mowed the lawn this morning. He was packing a bag. Said he was going to see his brother in Massachusetts. I told him to stay in town."

"Did he see Katz?"

"No. They had an argument about lawn care two years ago, and Welenck avoided the guy. He just arrived with his mower about nine, mowed the lawn, and left. He bills Mrs. Cashman every month for it. He said he heard typing when he arrived and again when he left an hour or so later."

"An interesting case," remarked Detective Ball. "Money was left in one of the drawers and in Katz's wallet. It was made to look like a suicide, Walt, but this is murder."

Did you enjoy, so whats your answer?

A.Ed Welenck

B.Mary Cashman

C.John Keenan

D.John Rumore
 
REMEMBER BE FIRST TO GET IT RIGHT AND READ CAREFULLY!

Devontaxt : uuuuummmm.... I don't mean to be a party pooper, but you just copy n pasted this entire post. The power of the internet my friend , I know the answer and I know I'm correct because google already took me to the site this came from.

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John Keenan is the murderer.

Detective Ball knew it was a murder case because of the index finger print on the shotgun trigger. If someone were shooting themselves to commit suicide it would be a thumb print on the trigger instead of index.

Keenan said he heard the gunshot but never seen the murder which was impossible because of sparse furniture and no where to hide etc. Making him the murderer. His motive was the literary success he coveted and the first 18 chapters of katz's manuscript were missing.

Like I said sorry if I kind of ruined the fun here , but you brought in on yourself by copy and pasting your entire post. You even said in your rules: "Rule #9. I don't copy ill show who wrote the mystery..." Well actually you never actually did specify that this is someone elses work , you never actually gave them credit for their work, and you made it pretty vague that this is actually copy and pasted from another site.

EDIT: sorry i guess you did out by tan smith , which should've read, by Stan Smith , but it was pretty hidden within the post.

Well, first what i mean about copy is that i don't take no credit, and i made a mistake on the : ,anyways im writing them on my own and just double up the Viz you get if you get it correct

Devontaxt : What do you mean you're writing it on your own, It is just about word for word off of another site. You should make it more clear in your original post that the entire story is written word for word from another site. If you just took the story and re typed it word for word it's still the same you just wasted the time instead of copy+pasting it, maybe had you changed the wording but all I see is that you added periods where they don't belong etc. I'm not trying to be mean or anything man I'm just pointing out that you didn't make it clear enough that this is someone elses' work and you should've sited your sources.

Oct,29,2012.Next Mystery Thread my own,Have a great mind cause im good at mysteries. 100Viz if answered correctly,250Viz if answered correctly and explained. the only internet now is my mind so there will be no cheating

Devontaxt : You can insinuate that I'm a cheater all you want but you brought it on yourself. At least my form of cheating isn't called plagiarism which is illegal.

If it wasn't me it would've been someone else who pointed all of this out to you, I just beat them to the punch.

The whole point was for someone to read it and answer ,that's all point blank, i didn't write it Stan Smith did i made a mistake and for now on im writing my own so there are no goinog to link and finding the answer, thank you LegolasJJH for helping me i know you not trying to be harsh.D