Mystery at Blackwood Manor
Youth Group Valentine Banquet
Part 3
Saturday, February 12
Dessert at Blackwood Manor which is located on Blackwood Estate.
Heart-shaped Brownies
Kelly topping her brownie with ice cream from the inhouse ice cream machine.
Following dessert, Lady Elizabeth (Janessa), who was engaged to Lord Blackwood, welcomed us to the manor, but excused herself because she was not feeling well. She invited Lord Blackwood to host the evening.
Lord Blackwood (Daniel) also excused himself because he was not feeling well. He then said that his staff would entertain us.
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Suddenly the room went dark and there was a loud scream!
Someone discovered that Lord Blackwood and Lady Elizabeth were dead!
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Enter the detective (Kirson), who was determined to find their killer, and said it had to be someone who was at the manor tonight.
He first asked Poe (the cook) to come to the living room. She said, “I am busy removing plates from the tables and cannot come.”
The detective said, “Find someone else to do the job.” So she handed the dishes to Seth (right) and asked him to gather plates for her.
Even before she sat down, she leaned into the detective’s face and said, “I have worked here for a long time. I did not kill them.”
The “Sherlock Holmes” detective listened and asked more questions.
Poe was insistent that she did not kill them, even though she did not like Lady Elizabeth.
The dectective asked a few more questions.
Poe kept on trying to convince him that she was not their killer.
Next he asked Ramsly the butler (Matt) to come to the living room.
He also had many excuses for why he did not kill the couple.
The detective listened and pondered his answers, and then excused the butler.
Next he summoned the maid to the living room. She said that she was busy dusting and could not come.
He said, “Give your feather duster to someone else.” She gave it to Derric. In this picture he is dusting his brother’s head.
Cinnamon the maid (Hannah) assured him that though she wished that Lord Blackwood had chosen her for his wife, and that she did not like Lady Elizabeth, she did not kill them.
Several times she asked the detective if he was single. 
After the detective had asked her all the questions he could think of, he asked Chillingworth (Kyle) – a suspicious-acting person who was hanging out at the manor, to come to the living room.
He said he could not come to the living room because he was practicing his “moonwalk.”
The detective said, “Find some else to moonwalk.”
That job was given to Kurt.
Though Chillingworth did not have any good reasons for being at the manor tonight…
…he did his best to convince the detective that he had no reason for killing Lord Blackwood and Lady Elizabeth.
“So, who did it?”, the detective asked us.
We had a clue sheet, that when properly answered said “Nemo” which means no one.
While they all looked at each other suspiciously, it was discovered that Lady Elizabeth loved to walk around the estate to look for exotic teas, and had accidentally chosen a tea that was poisonous.
Conclusion: Her tea is what killed them.
That was fun!
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Part 4 tomorrow night
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