Fanon:Mysteries of Twinbrook: Difference between revisions

Arlette arrived at the Pidgin's house at 3 pm. She got a phone call from Dilly Pidgin earlier that day, that said that she had something important to tell her. The house was gigantic, and greenish, a color that clashed with the immaculate white houses in the surroundings. She rang the doorbell, and a woman opened.

-You're Miss Clucky, the detective? I'm [[Anne T. Septik|Anne Tricia Septik]], Milly's and Dilly's maid. Please do come in. They are waiting for you.

Arlette followed the maid in a long hall that opened on an immense lounge. And she remember the day Mollie told her about the Pidgin's awfully peculiar tastes. She was below the truth. The room was filled with various, light pink chintz armchairs, mahogany furnitures, a white piano, multicolored tulips and some hideous, motley old paintings, all this surrounded by a spiceberry carpet and green and orange, sunflower ornated wallpaper. She then observed the three ladies that were presents. It was not difficult to tell which ones were the Pidgins. Those two were pretty much alike and their outfits matched he surroundings. Clashing, motley and eccentric. The third one was merely wearing a blue pullover and a beige dress. She manifestly was stressed a lot.

-Good afternoon, Miss Clucky, said Milly Pidgin. Please take a seat.

Arlette obeyed and sad in one of the armchairs. She vainly tried to ignore the monstrosity of the room.

-I asked you to come in order to help you to fight the many criminals that are in town, she continued. And I think that you're as much convinced than me that this curse story is pure idiocy.

-Arlette nodded.

-Do you know Miss [[Alma Drill]]? asked Dilly.

-I don't have this honor.

-Miss Drill is a teacher at the Stary Community School, said Milly. And I invited you since she had had some information she kept secret in fear of being silenced. She finally told me about it since I'm apparently the one the trusts the most. She was too scared to talk to the police.

Alma didn't seem to want to talk, paralysed with anxiety.

-C'mon, Alma! encouraged Dilly. Tell her! You can trust her. Or else, Ma will tell her instead of you, and you'll look like a cowardly fool.

Alma sure was anguished, but she however seemed to react to the taunt.

-Well, she said hesitantly, the day Pixie died, I saw that creepy old witch, in Sofia's garden.I didn't see what she actually did, and I thought it was another of her annoying and evil pettinesses. But when I learnt that Pixie had been poisoned and that Sofia's thermometer had been found on the crime scene, I knew what she had done.

-Who is this creepy old hag?

-Who, you ask? That was that dire Marigold Racket! I'm sure she is involved with this.

-But Why didn't you tell anything? asked Arlette.

-If she and her clan learnt that I knew something, she would have killed me! Her henchmen are everywhere! No one can be trusted in this town as long as Marigold and her organization there! Except from Milly! Everyone KNOW that Marigold is the master of the Twinbrook Crime Syndicated, but no one could ever prove it!

-You know, said Milly, I really hate that little Carlton, but I would not accept seeing her arrested for a crime she did not commit by my or Alma's silence. I hope that You'll be able to arrest the true culprits quickly.

While getting away, Arlette thought of what she just heard. If Alma was right, then the original track was the right one. The Rackets were the culprits. However they weren't in town at the time. No, that was during the Spa fund's iembezzlement. They were in Germany. No, in France, in a small town, Orgueil as I recall.

And then, Arlette understood, and knew what really happened. Everything would correspond! However, in the case, the others were guilty too! That's amazing!

She then ran to the police department and aked to see the inspector Tex.

==Chapter Eleven==

-You were right! said joyfully Deena Tex. We got them! The criminal organization is finally behind bars! Margigold Racket was the one who learnt all the tricks of the plot! However, I still don't know how you did know.

-That's Alma Drill who brought my attention back on the Rackets. She saw the old Marigold in Sofia's garden the day Mrs Carlton died. However, she wass too scared to talk, and said that her henchmen were everywhere. And she apparently was so true. Moreover, I recalled that the Racket once were in Orgueil, France. And a big meteor falled there some time ago, probably leaving some fragments around.

-I don' see how this is related to Pixie's murder.

-That's the key of the murder! Mrs Carlton has never been the main target. We were wrong all the time. The main victim was Tina-Patricia Copper. We first thought of a murder, and we were right. Their plan was very ingenious.

-Stop! Could you explain it to the poor, silly woman I am, since I don't even know what you're talking about.

-Tina-Patricia Copper had not been killed by unluck. She was a sneaky gossip, and she probably learnt something very important and very detrimental for the Racket's and their organization. They had to keep her silent. But they used a very special method.They are vile but very clever. They wanted to use the unexpected, accidental death of the other egyptologist who suddently died of blood poisoning. He and Copper opened an ancient Egyptian tomb, and they knew that people here could believe in a curse. A curse might allow the to use some extraordinary, unprobable, unfortunate yet possibly accidental way of killing her: if she's been curse, absolutely EVERYTHING might happent to her. Like the falling of some small meteor. Such an unluck might only be seen in cinemas. However, since she might have been curse, everyone would think that she was killed by unluck and fatality. Everyone fell in the trap, except from Milly Pidgin. Even the most skeptical persons, who don't believe in those things, tend to subconsciously admit it. That's what I did. Tina-Patricia Copper totally disappeared from my thoughts. And Mrs Sargeant hopefully reminded me that she also died, else I would never have thought about her again. You remember? She talked about the Infernal Three, and two were killed. Why not three?

This whole think has been carefully planned. No one would try to know where the meteor came from, since it might have fallen from the sky, unlike most other things. I had it analysed, and it is the same type of meteor that fell on Orgueil in 1864. And meteors of this type are somehow rare. A coincidence would be too enormous to be true. One of the Rackets (probably Max. He is by far the most experienced along with his wife, and strongest) discretely followed her in the misty fog, and smash Tina-Patricia's head with the meteor, without letting a single print. And he got away, hidden by the mist. He also took care of not letling any footprint behind.

However, they learnt that Pixie Carlton quickly discovered the body, and they were scared: and if she heard or saw something? They couldn't take a single risk. They then developed a bold plan. First, they had to find a black sheep. Easy. They found it as Sofia Carlton, dimwitted, and with a mobile.

First, Marigold steals a thermometer at Sofia's home, and is unknowingly seen by Alma Drill. She breaks it, takes the mercury, invites Pixie, kills her by making her drink the mercury, put the corpse in her own garden as well as the thermometer's wreck. She know that it can be identified as Sofia's. This was diabolically bright. The Rackets knew that they were know as evil genius, and that the police avidly searched a single proof against them. They used this reputation. After all the incredible things they did, how could they, the Rackets, leave such an irrefutable evidence behind them. Everyone would think that they are too clever to do such and horrible mistake, and that someone awkwardly tried to accuse them. Once again, they lured everyone.

-I know. The constable Copperfield was the first one to fall in the trap, and he made me fall into it too.

-This worked perfectly, and Sofia was inculped for Pixie's murder. And no one linked this murder to Copper's death. However, Arlette continued, their was a problem. Sofia has been proven to have an alibi, and once again, they were in trouble. The alibi relied on a total stranger. Then they had to convince that Matthew Smith lied and knew Sofia Carlton, making him an accomplice. And they used their organization in order to lure us. And they do have a strong support in their ranks: a couple of well-known and trusted investigators, the Sargeants. No one would even suspect them of lying. They have helped the police on many occasion.

-Not really. We prove than most of the persons that were arrested thanks to them wre innocents, the xxCENSOREDxx! That's why criminality in Twinbrook never decreased.

-Yeah, and Alma Drill was right. No one could really be trusted as long as Marigold's organization exists. Everyone could've been in that thing. However, they once again were in trouble. Miss Riddle found out something that might have ruined their plans. No one would ever learn what. The must have blathed in front of the wrong person, and they had to kill her. They send one of the Sargeants to smash her with her fire poker and Bobby and Sabina then insinuated that Riddle's discovery concerned Matthew Smith. Bright! There were no deaths left to incriminate the Rackets since Sofia's been found guilty for all the murders. However, Mrs Sargeant has done a mistake. She shouldn't have mentioned the Infernal Three, or else I'd never thought about Tina-Patricia Copper anymore. That's what led me to think that Copper might also have been murdered. And I'd never have found out that she was the main victim and the problem couldn't have been solved yet, despite Alma's sayings. The Infernal Three. They are the ones who really convinced the talented, clever and powwerful Rackets for murder, Even when they were deceased. It's sad that they died. Oh, and by the way, who were the members of the sydicates?

-There are plenty of them. First there was Katherine Hunter.

-Of course. She is the first one who have mentioned Matthew Smith as a liar and that send us to the influential yet evil Sargeants.

-There also was Clark Peddler...

-I could have guessed, pensively said Arlette. His appearance totally matchs this.

-There was [[Nick Zit]], a burglar, [[Colette Dette]], a repo-woman who always took away more than she had to, Penny Pincher... And of course, Cathy Stielburg, Sinbad Rotter, [[Lucy Ferne|Lucinda Ferne]]...

-I know. These are the ones who falsified the votes, aren't they?

-Of course, but you don't know everything. Some though they did it because they were ecologists.

-And other, like Mollie, thought it was because of Beverly Castor was a dreaded threat to the organization.

-Yes. But the truth is different. They tried to place one of their syndicate to the town hall. I'd never thought that Holly Greenwood would be some kind of criminal. If they had succeeded, The mayor of the town would have been a criminal and the organization would have completely taken over the town. Oh, and there also was a firefighter, [[Bernadette Sprinkle]]. She has already deliberatly set ablaze three buildings. But now, we got all the documents that prove that all those people are in the organization.

-At least, conclueded Arlette, Twinbrook is now as peaceful as it once was, during the periodd between the flood and the Syndicate.

==Epilog==

Dilly Pidgin was once again reading the paper next to her mother.

-You see Ma, Beverly Castor will hold a ceremony in honor of Arlette Clucky to thank her for having gotten rid of the criminals.

-She deserved it, answered Milly. Twinbrook was filled with evildoers for nearly thirty years. And partly because of these damn Sargeants. That poor [[Penelope Sargeant|Penelope]] must have turned in her grave.

-Penelope, Bobby's sister?

-Yes. A lovely young woman. She died years ago in a massive fire. She hopefully never learnt about her brother's and sister-in-law's actions. Beverly was lucky to have had Arlette in her town.

-Without hern no one would ever have sent the Rackets behind bars.

-And moreover, she has definitely elucidated the affair of the rigged election.

-I still can't believe that Holly Greenwood was among the criminals. She seems nice and... normal!

-Yes. But appearances might be misleading. The Rackets would have reigned over town through her.

-God am I glad that that awful old crone is behind bars!

-I am too, but one has to acknowledge that this Marigold was a true genius. Even is she is evil. A few people might accomplish what she had done.

-Oh, by the way, Silver and her kids, who weren't in Marigold's crime syndicate moved out to Riddle's house. The manor remembered Silver of her family-in law. And I read here that the old manor has already bought by an othe wealthy heiress.

-I heard it. She will move in in three weeks. She appears to be perfectly normal. I can't remember her name, though...

-As if one heiress in town was not enough. At least, Sofia might get some other frends... For now, she just has [[Amy Bull]]. And her husband. She married Matthew Smith.

-I know, answered Milly. They didn't know them for a long time, but they still had gone through a lot with each other. Oh, I remember the name of the heiress! I's Dortheimer! Claudette Dortheimer! I don't think SHE will cause much havoc in town...