Creative writing

I gave the students the following information

Sir Percy has been killed in the library of the old castle where he lived.

WHO KILLED SIR PERCY?

The suspects

Sir Percy’s wife

Sir Percy’s son

Diane the maid

Ben the butler

Sir Percy’s mistress

The students were asked to imagine the kind of questions the inspector is going to ask the suspects and then invent a story identifying the possible culprit and his or her motive

QUESTIONS

• Where were you when Sir Percy was murdered?
• What were you doing?
• Where did you last see Sir Percy?
• Which room were you when Sir Percy was murdered?
• Have you had any arguments or problems recently?
• Has anything strange happened recently?
• How long have you known Sir Percy?
• How long ago did you know Sir Percy?
• In your opinion, did Sir Percy have any enemies?
• Did you notice anything strange that day?
• Did you see anybody going into the library at the time of the murder?

Sir Percy was murdered by Diana, the maid, because several years ago Sir Percy  had killed the maid’s nephew in a car crash.

In fact Diana was upset, she loved him like a son.

She had brought up her nephew, because the baby hadn’t had a father and the mother had escaped in search for luck, to become an actress.

So Diana was employed by Sir Percy, who didn’t know anything about Diana’s nephew, and when all the people in the house trusted her she poisoned Sir Percy.

Few nights ago Sir Percy was murdered. A detective is investigating the case. The suspects are Sir Percy’s wife, Sir Percy’s wife, sir Percy’s son, Diane the maid, Ben the Butler and Sir Percy’s mistress.

He was murdered in his library. The detective asked the suspects some questions.Sir Percy’s wife did not know her husband’s mistress so she had no motives.

Sir Percy’s mistress looked at the maid with contempt ….so that led the detective to question the mistress. He found a knife in the mistress’s bag and after having asked her some questions he found out the truth. The mistress killed Sir Percy because she had found out that the maid was in love with Sir Percy and she believed that the two were lovers so she got mad with jealousy and killed Sir Percy.

Sir Percy was stabbed with a knife. He was murdered on Saturday night in his library while he was reading. In my opinion the murderer is Sir Percy’s son because he’s a cook and the knife used by the murderer is a special knife which is usually used by a cook.

What’s more, I found out that Sir Percy had an illegitimate child born from his relationship with the mistress. When Sir Percy’s son found out this fact the same day of the murder, he stabbed his father in a fit of madness and jealousy.

Sir Percy’s mistress, who was jealous of Sir Percy’s love towards his wife used to talk to Ben the butler, who was in love with her, about her sorrow.

Ben the butler and Diane the maid used to share information. Diane was also really close to Sir Percy’s wife, so she told her about the relationship.

Sir Percy’s son heard the conversation and knew his mother was suffering, so he sneaked out at night and killed his father.