Utterly Poisonous Extract One

A Story by Perennial

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It was frustrating, of course, being so close to it and not seeing anything suspicious. All I can say is that I'm glad Kay dragged us off to the library in the first place, and that Becky and I have annoyingly large clean streaks.

It all began in the library, on the other side of school to the Dining Hall, where Kay had gathered us to 'research' things we might find useful as detectives. The dinner bell went and, Kay and Addie being Kay and Addie, rushed off to dinner to fill their ever-hungry stomachs. Becky hoisted up a pile of encyclopaedias and opened the cabinet where said encyclopedias are kept. She gave a short shriek and took a step back, caught her heel on one of Kay's half-finished mystery novel manuscripts and went careening to the floor. I picked up the encyclopedias and went to put them in the cabinet. I do not think that in those first moments of shock that I truly realised the situation. For a moment I braced myself for my punishment. For you see, Amy Troy is our Head Girl here in Perennial School For Girls. And it was her dead body Becky and I found in the Encyclopedia Cabinet.