Landlady Monologue

A recent case was brought into the police station that a young man named Billy Weaver had disappeared. He was traveling to Bath to report for a job. He was seen entering a small Bed and Breakfast, and never showed up to work the next morning. I was called in to investigate the case and the Landlady who owns the bed and breakfast. I am on the side of the manager of Billy’s job, and I have to prove the Landlady guilty. Here’s the evidence I found…

I went down to the house and when I rang the doorbell the Landlady was instantly there, that was the first thing that I noticed was a little off. I looked around and saw that there were four coats hanging on a rack beside the stairs. I asked who else was staying there, and she said no one was, that we were all alone. …show more content…
She went into the kitchen to get the tea, and I quickly wrote down about the animals and her insistence on me having some tea. I knew she was just trying to be nice, but this case was starting to get way too weird. She came back with my tea and asked if I wanted milk and sugar and I said yes. I was about to take a sip when I smelled something. It smelled almost like bitter almonds. I stopped myself as I realized what the smell of bitter almonds meant. She had poisoned my tea. Had she done this to Billy? And all of her other guests? That was the last thing I had needed to know she was completely dotty.

I very quickly left the house and headed back towards the station, and am now thinking over everything I had figured out. She had said there was no one there but it looked like there was. There were no check-out dates in the guest book. All of her animals were stuffed and she said her guests had never left, and then she poisoned my tea. I now knew that she had had something to do with the disappearance of Billy Weaver, and most likely the other boys. The Landlady of the Bed and Breakfast, was