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1. Inspector Moriarty looked at the cold slab in the mortuary. The pathologist told him in a dispassionate voice that the victim had at least two pints of real ale in his stomach. Moriarty hurried out and turned his attention to the red Jaguar belonging to the victim - the car stereo still playing Lohengrin on the cassette deck. There could be no doubt that this was Moriarty's old friend, Chief Inspector ___.
2. Moriarty sat in his small office. His phone rang. He answered it, then jumped up and ran to his car and hurried to a typical suburban house. In the kitchen was the remains of a takeaway curry. Moriarty cringed. He looked at the body of the short male lying on the floor. The tatty grey moustache seeming to stand out prominently. "Ah Moriarty", said a voice behind him. "I'm the victim's boss - Superintendent Mullet's the name". Then there could be no doubt. This latest victim was who?
3. Moriarty could see only one course of action. He drove through the night, arriving at Causton police station just before breakfast. He went in, glad to be seeing an old friend at last. But what was up? In the corridor he recognised his friend's daughter, Cully, weeping uncontrollably. "Oh no," thought Moriarty. "Not another one". Sergeant Troy filled Moriarty in on the details of this latest death. The body count is rising. Who is the latest victim?
4. 3 bodies and 3 television detectives. There must be a connection. But what? Moriarty needed to get away and look at this objectively. He boarded the plane for LA. He called the LAPD. The officer said to meet him at the lab. As Moriarty walked through the door he noticed first the small pile of clothes waiting for examination. The heavily crumpled raincoat and the thick stub of a chewed cigar. He knew he was too late. "Did he say anything"? Asked Moriarty. The lieutenant said that the victim's last words were "Just one more thing." Which of Moriarty's American friends is no more?
5. On the way back to England Moriarty stopped off at Cabot Cove in Maine. "If anyone can tell me what's going on, it's a sleuth who actually writes about murder," he thought. As he was sitting drinking his coffee his writer friend mulled over the evidence, typing notes furiously as she spoke. Her friend Sheriff Tupper was just about to join them when a shot rang out and Moriarty's friend slumped over her coffee cup. Dead. Now who's shuttled off this mortal coil?
6. Back in London, Moriarty decided to call the Cold Case Unit to see if this had been going on longer than he realised. He couldn't see the DS as he was out for anger management counseling. Instead he saw some profiler, Grace Foley or somebody - he didn't take much notice. A flustered DC rushed in. "He's dead. The Guv. He's dead." It was Moriarty who needed anger management now. A body count of 6. And rising. Which head of the CCU will be conducting no more investigations?
7. As Moriarty pulled up at the gates of the imposing West Country mansion he wondered why such a man as the 8th Earl of Asherton should choose to be a copper. But something was not quite right. He hurried up to the open door of the rather beautiful Bristol 410 motor car. Fearing what he would find he turned the head of the passenger. A single bullet wound in the temple told him all he needed to know. "Just how will I break this to Sergeant Havers?" he thought. Which aristocratic policeman will solve no more cases?
8. Moriarty was fast running out of ideas. His taxi pulled up outside a smart art deco building in London. A small fussy man greeted Moriarty at the door and spoke in a thick European accent. "Ah, monsieur, I was wondering when you would call. Tell me all you know." The small fat man carefully selected a Belgian chocolate from the box and took a bite. Almost immediately his eyes bulged and he clutched his throat. Poisoned! One cough and whose little grey cells were no more?
9. Outside the art deco mansion something caught Moriarty's eye. He stooped and picked up a receipt for a train ticket to Switzerland. At last a break. But he would make a call in Jersey first. The Bureau des Etrangers was familiar to him. He knew he would not be offered a glass of wine in this detective's house so he grimaced and looked at the Triumph Roadster parked outside the house. "What is it with detectives and cars?" He wondered. Just then there was a muffled cry from inside the house and he knew he was too late. Which friend died before Moriarty could warn him?
10. Switzerland. Moriarty heard the sound of the waterfall crashing in his ears. Suddenly a shadowy figure leapt out. It seemed to slip on the polished rocks and hang in mid air before plunging into the chasm. On a large, flat outcrop at the top of the path lay a neatly folded cape with a deerstalker on top. Beside it a large curled pipe. "Well, Moriarty," said a voice. "I'm afraid he couldn't stand the bungling efforts of this new breed of television detectives. He was the original, the greatest and he had to protect his legacy. Now he has died trying to finish you off. But I, Dr. Watson, will personally see to it that, through my writing, the name of Moriarty will live in ignominy." So who did kill the great detectives of Tellyland?
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