Day&Night

Detective story: Oriol Prat, Kilian Penelas, Patricia Ortega, Sara Rodriguez i Maria Rey

DAY AND NIGHT

It was seven o’ clock of morning. That day London woke up cloudy, the young detective John Drack, tall, red hair and elf ears was going to have breakfast when he read an amazing new in that day’s newspaper: “A young girl death body has appear at Baker Street with poker cards on it”. Nice! Another crime to solve! Thought Drack.

He went to the crime scene with his mini painted with UK’s flag, but before he left home, he put his sunglasses, as he never like his eyes, he has one green and another fluorescent yellow.

When he arrived at the crime scene, sent regards to the commander Prince and, in a row, he passed to inspect the scene.                                               

He found a girl surrounded in a puddle of blood. Approximately, she must be dead six hours ago. In first eyesight, he found the crime weapon: a poker card, exactly, the seven of hearts.

Then, he commented the case with the commander:

-How about that?  There is something new in the case?  We know anything about the girl?

- Look Mr. Drack, we discover that the girl is Jade, more known as Gigi Diamond.

-This is a prostitute’s name, no?

-You know, Mr Drack! -said ironically the commander-. Yes, she was a prostitute, but not a normal prostitute , she was a hight-class prostitute, with seven millions in a fiscal paradise.

-Seven? I think that I just saw that number somewhere… -said John, and quickly, he began to look for clues by the whole scene.

-That’s it! Here is it! The card that the killer uses to kill her is the seven of hearts! Maybe this isn’t a coincidence- said the detective- We should

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At ten o’clock at night, just after the news the most wanted murderess at this moment, The Crupier, walked throw the streets of Pinkerstone until she arrived to a luxury urbanization, where her next victim rest. After she concentrated and thought a plan to enter in the house unseen by the security cameras, she started her plan.

The victim lived with no-one and he didn’t had any cats or dogs, a advantage! Thought the murderess. The victim, a fifty years man, slept placidly in his bedroom.

When she took the card, the nine of diamonds, from her jacket pocket, she cut her arm and with a fast and sagacius movement she pressed the wound for didn’t stain of blood the crime scene and then she killed the man without compassion nailing the card on the man’s jugular.

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Drack looked at his pocket watch from his dead father, with the inscriptions L.S.D, Leonard Samuel Drack. It is seven o’clock of morning, Drack always followed his routine, he never improvised. Another new death body, this time at Pinkerstone urbanization, a fifty years jeweler. John went to the crime scene exhausted… How it can be, if I sleep ten hours this night?, thought.

When he arrived he realized that it was a serial killer, because that victim was also killed with a poker card, but now it wasn’t the seven of heart, it was the nine of diamonds. Now the card was at the victim’s jugular. A little time after inspect the crime scene commandant Prince arrived and he brought the victim’s documents, it was a man, he was 55 years old and he was the owner of a very luxurious jewelry shop and he had more than 9 million dollar at the bank.

When Drack looks at the death body he found a tattoo on the victim’s arm, it was a joker.

-Prince, look that…-said nervously John-.

-Oh! It’s the same tattoo of the prostitute!

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Another day came to the end and the Crupier went out again. Her next victim was Mdm. Bouvier, a multimillion widow that casually won the last lottery with that number: 50.731. When she arrived at the residence she did an elegant intrusion at Mdm. Bouvier’s house. Mdm. Bouvier lived with her maidservant, that today had free the night and with her cat, Dorothy.

The Crupier arrived to the principal bedroom and took from her pocket the ace of clovers. She went toward the victim and with a clean cut at the neck she makes eternal Mdm. Bouvier’s sleep.

The Crupier went to the exit but something stop her, it was the cat of the widow. With a kick she moved the cat and then she go outside the widow’s residence. But she didn’t realized about the metallic hit that sounds behind her. The cat looks at the assassin while she played with the watch that have fallen from The Crupier’s pocket…

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At first thing in the morning the phone rang at Drack’s home. It was the commander Prince. He had news of a new murder, now the victim was Mdm. Bouvier, and another time he was very tired…Why? I should go to visit the Dr- Repeat again and again.

When he arrived at the crime scene the commander Prince explained him the story of Mdm. Bouvier.  Mdm. Bouvier was kill with the same method of the jeweler and the prostitute, but now the card was the ace of clovers.

At that moment appeared the maidservant , she didn’t know anything about the widow, so when she knew the bad new she started to cry a lot, but then she had to ask the police’s questions.

After the interrogation Prince explained to Drack all the details about the case. The widow won the lottery last Monday and her cat would inherit all. Also her cat saw all so she would have a clue.

Drack entered at the house to look for clues, he found the death body of the widow with the same tattoo of the other victims, Drack continued looking for clues and behind a table he found a pocket-watch, it was…it was… It was his pocket-watch! The watch that had the inscriptions L.S.D!

 Drak understood all: He was the assassin… Did he was “The Croupier”? Did he was the woman who was wanted for police? (Doesn’t matter)

But now all made meaning, the victims, the weapons. The tattoo of the victims was the emblem of “The Joker” and a sect of compulsive gamblers. The sect who kill his father because he investigated it and discovered it crimes.

“I killed those people… I killed those people for REVENGE”

Drak wrote a note for the police, and put it on the diary of his father. Inside the diary there were all the details of the “The Joker” investigation.

Drak put the diary with the note on the table of his living room so  when Prince found him hanging, found also the solution of the case in which they work.

THE END