One like and I'll explain how I would murder you at a country house weekend in 1932.
1. Abseil down two storeys from the roof and shoot you through a small open window, then return to the roof, giving the appearance of an impossible crime.
2. Add poison to my own cocktail, then accidentally-on-purpose spill yours and insist you have mine instead.
3. Send you threatening letters from an invented secret society operating in the definitely real country of East Balkania, then stab you in the library leaving a coded letter in East Balkanese.
4. Stage an "accident" with a carelessly held shotgun at a stile.
5. Painstakingly cultivate a ghost story about the Blue Room, in which you're sleeping, then hide in the priest hole and add to your nighttime glass of water the deadly poison of the Amazon tribesmen, hitherto unknown to science.
6. Catch the 6.45 to London, but jump off at the curve near the house, sneak through the woods, do you in, run back to the station to board the 7.37 in disguise, then leg it from Euston to my club by 9.45 to establish my alibi.
7. Create a fake identity, Baron von Forrener, the Austrian expert on heraldry, who wangles an invite to the Abbey to examine the tapestries, then mysteriously vanishes into thin air after coshing you in the study.
8. Make a secret copy of the key to your bedroom, and then stab you in the heart with an icicle, leaving your key on your bedside table and locking the door with my copy before throwing it in the lake.
9. Disguise myself as a footman and poison your coffee. No-one ever pays proper attention to servants.
10. Use an incredibly complicated sprung trap door-handle to inject snake venom into your hand.
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