User blog comment:Emmaelise401/Kitten Detective - Round 1/@comment-4189499-20150204003303/@comment-4189499-20150204081143

Part 1
Ellie pulled up at the crime scene, V's Haunted Mansion. The mansion was large and dark and inexplicably made of gingerbread, the outside decorated with sweets as if it was a Christmas gingerbread house, yet somehow more sinister. "What sort of place is this," Ellie asked her colleague, surprised by the edible appearance of the building.

Hardy ignored the question and ducked under the police tape which surrounded the house. "Tell me what you know," said Hardy to a detective standing beside a cat.

"Ah, DI Alec Hardy. Straight to the point as always," replied the detective with an American twang in his voice. "And who's this?"

"DS Ellie Miller," said Ellie as she joined the others. "You must be Detective Hunter then."

"That is I," replied the detective, "and this is V, the detective cat." Ellie looked slightly confused by the cat comment, but a quick look from Hardy told her not to mention it.

"Come on Hunter," interrupted Hardy. "We need to know the facts if we're going to help you on this case."

"Yes of course," replied Hunter. "Victim is male, middle aged, and we believe his name to be John Smith. He was the creator of Level 70 in the popular game "Candy Crush Saga", a level which made many people dislike him.  CCTV footage shows that he was lead into the mansion at 12:35am by an unknown person who left the crime scene before we arrived, but was not captured on tape, suggesting that he, or she, must have found another way out of the building.  The victim himself died of blunt force trauma, being hit in the head by a long, thin object, like a cricket bat or a baseball bat. The call came in at 6:24am from an unknown number in this area, simply reporting the death inside and leaving no further information."

"Are there many crimes like this in this area?" asked Hardy.

"No. Well, not except the death of that other Candy Crush Saga level creator in Soda Swamp last year.  That was just weird," replied Hunter.

"Any suspects so far?" asked Ellie.

"Three main ones," replied Hunter. "A little girl, previously arrested in the case of the other level creator victim (but the case never stood up in court) who was also here the night of the murder, a young man known as "Enderman" who lives nearby and is a known Candy Crush Saga fanatic, and Dino, a local dinosaur who lives around this area."

"A dinosaur?!" exclaimed Ellie. Hardy shot her an annoyed glance.

"What is this Candy Crush Saga thing anyway, and why do people keep getting killed over it?" asked Hardy.

"Well," Hunter started, "Candy Crush is this mobile game where a user swaps candies-"

"Don't bother trying to explain it to him," Ellie interrupted. "He still uses a Blackberry."

"Ah," Hunter replied. "Anyway, Tiffi is a suspect due to her prior involvement and proximity, but a little girl can't really be expected to have bludgeoned a fully grown man to death, and Dino has no arms and there were no tooth marks found on the body, so we're primarily suspecting Enderman right now. He had both the motive, a distinct hatred for this person's Level 70, and the means, being the only one strong enough to have caused those injuries."

"Well disliking somebody's work doesn't mean that person will kill the creator," Ellie interjected. "Is there anybody else who could have done it?"

"Nobody else would have been around that night," countered Hunter. "It's definitely him."

"So why do you need our help then?" asked Hardy.

"Well, you took your time getting here!" replied Hunter. "I managed to solve it while you were still on the road! Pretty good for a first murder case, don't you think?"

"All the same, I wouldn't mind having a look around of my own," said Hardy. "In my own experience, it's never the most obvious of suspects who did the deed."