# MuSR / 

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{"choices":"['Homer', 'Clara']","narrative":"When renowned dancer Nathaniel is found dead, struck by a blowgun dart in his own studio, it's up to Detective Winston to interrogate the only two suspects: Homer the janitor and Clara, Nathaniel’s star pupil.\n\nWinston extinguished his half-smoked cigar and sorted through the papers littering his desk. Most of them bore information about Nathaniel's untimely demise in a local dance studio.\n\nNathaniel, an outgoing character with a dubious financial psyche, earned people's ire quite often. He apparently had it big for stealing shiny things. Of note was Clara’s valuable pearl necklace, which he was rumoured to be in possession of.\n\nWinston thought it was apt time to pay Clara a visit.\n\nNathaniel and Clara; cousins by parental lineage, contrasting dramatically by nature. While Clara was reserved, she carried a fervour for dancing. A known face at the dance studios. Heck, she was last seen near the studio just before the mishap unfolded. Winston pondered whether this was chance or circumstance.\n\nReaching her apartment, Winston knocked and Clara greeted him. He noticed a throwing dart board in the hallway with clusters of darts piercing the centre.\n\n“Fancy playing darts?” he asked casually.\n\n“My favourite pastime,” Clara replied, the faintest light dancing in her eyes. Winston gestured towards the bullseyes, “You're quite good then.” Clara just smiled in response.\n\nWinston recalled her reputation of playing dart games in the locale, consistently hitting bulls-eye.\n\nWinston changed the subject, \"Your cousin was rumoured to have your pearl necklace. Is that correct?\" Clara gave him a curt nod and recounted the time she caught Nathaniel sporting her missing necklace. \"I was outraged!\"\n\nA glint of vulnerability in Clara’s eyes didn’t escape Winston’s scrutiny.\n\nThe conversation veered towards charities, with a quick detour to a mention about her cousin, the hunter. She confided in Winston about a fraudulent charity she’d invested heavily in. She later found out Nathaniel operated the charity.\n\nWinston took this opportunity to broach the subject of her sighting at her cousin the hunter’s house on the murder day.\n\n“Indeed, I had to pick up a few things,” Clara replied candor in her voice.\n\nOn his way out, Winston stopped by the darts board. His gaze rested on the bullseyes and then fleetingly on an antique blowgun displayed above the nearby mantelpiece.\n\n“From the hunter’s collection?” he asked, veiling the touch of interest in his tone.\n\n“All part of the family,” Clara replied.\n\nAs he drove back, the facts played in his mind. Clara and her lost pearl necklace, her surprising accuracy with darts, her visit to the hunter’s house and her being in close vicinity of the dance studio where Nathaniel was found dead. He had a lot to think about.\n\nDetective Winston paced around his office, going over the information he had collected thus far on Nathaniel's peculiar death in the dance studio. His mind kept circling back to Homer, the victim's financial advisor, who owned an impressive collection of various hunting equipment that intriguingly enough, included multiple blowguns.\n\nNathaniel had found some suspicious discrepancies in his accounts and was bold enough to confront Homer about it. It didn't sit right with Winston. But again, his job was to look at facts, not reach conclusions.\n\nHomer was a perplexing personality. Winston remembered him asking about his dietary preferences during their first encounter. With a nonchalant shrug, Homer didn't have much to say about meat or vegetables. Not that it mattered half as much as the other facts on Winston's desk.\n\nHis trips to observe Homer didn't paint any brighter a picture. He'd seen Homer practice his blowgun skills. His neighbors had reported hearing nocturnal hunting noises from Homer's home. This didn't surprise Winston given Homer's past in the special forces, where he'd been trained to use such exotic weapons.\n\nBut practice was one thing, shopping quite another. Winston had had some surveillance on Homer and saw him, on one occasion, purchasing what looked astonishingly like a blowgun in a local hunting store.\n\nThere were also those mysterious letters. They'd been signed off anonymously but were traced back to Nathaniel. The letters were cloyingly demanding, asking for large sums of money. Homer refused to elaborate on them, much as he hadn't provided any reasoning for the financial discrepancies Nathaniel had discovered.\n\nWinston let out a sigh, pushing his glasses up on his nose. He'd been through all the information, and he couldn't shake off the nagging feeling that he needed to look deeper. But again, that wasn't his call to make. He'd leave it up to others to decide if Homer was just an eccentric hunter or whether the venom was from his blowgun. His job here was done.","question":"Who is the most likely murderer?"}

Source: https://zayne-sprague.github.io/MuSR/

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