Chapter 13
Unless some people faked their death, Wargrave, Lombard, Vera, Armstrong and Blore are the last ones alive. They all gather in one room and agree to only have one person leave the room at a time. When they need food, they all go to the kitchen and eat canned food. Vera offers to make some tea. Blore and Vera drink the tea while the other three have a drink. It's starting to get dark and the electricity doesn't work due to the generator not being maintained. Wargrave says he saw candles earlier and Lombard goes and gets them. Vera takes a candle and head for her room upstairs leaving the other 4 behind. In her room, someone dangled seaweed from the ceiling which catches her by surprise and causes her to scream. The others come running upstairs to see what the problem is. Blore offers Vera an opened brandy bottle but she turns it down. Lombard leaves and comes back with a new bottle. Only at this point does everyone realize that Wargrave isn't around. They rush downstairs and find the 6th twilight has passed. Wargrave's body is found in the room they used to be in together. Wargrave is dressed with a certain that went missing earlier and a wig. The cause of death was a bullet in the head and Armstrong says death was instantaneous.
This is a tough one to figure out. It doesn't seem like Vera had a chance to be the one to kill Wargrave. Lombard was by himself when he went to get a new bottle of Brandy. There's also the issue that no one heard Wargrave scream for help or the gun being fired. The last thing Wargrave said was that he saw some candles. Was it somehow dark enough at this time that the murder could be done before the candles were lit? It's still possible that there was a fake body earlier.
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