Personal Narrative: Questions And Answers

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“So, Nancy, how are you holding up” asked the detective’s assistant, Taylor Brown. The detective, Nancy Key, only responded with an emotionless expression, “Taylor tell me the list of suspects. We need to figure out who did this to my parents.” A day before any of this is happening, Nancy found her adoptive parents lying on the floor, having been murdered. “Well according to this file our suspects are Grace Wesley.” Nancy’s eye twitched as she muttered, “Of course, first on the list.” “We also have Melody Key, Harry O’rien, Gwen Sherry, and Ashley Barton.” “Taylor what are the alibis of our suspects?” asked Nancy. “Grace had a family feud and wanted your father’s position, Melody was there five minutes before you found your parents dead, Harry …show more content…

Ashley had the first non-detected fingerprint. Next was Melody, then, to Nancy’s surprise, Grace. Nancy knew that, if she had the chance, Grace would kill her father in an instant, and without hesitation. The only problem is, Grace doesn’t want to lose her job, seeing as she has now taken over Nancy’s father’s position as military general. After Nancy got over her astonishment, she realized, she has two suspects left. Harry and Gwen. Nancy ran to Taylor and said “I’ve narrowed it down to Harry O’rien and Gwen Sherry.” Taylor grunted. “The two I least thought did it.” “That’s what I thought too, but look at this” Nancy handed Taylor a file and Taylor read it out loud, “It says that Harry O’rien was a strange fan of your father, Robert Key, and Gwen worked with Cheryl Key, your mother. So why would they kill the people they are most fond of?” Nancy said to her, “Just keep reading, it gets worse.” So, Taylor kept reading “These two are best friends and won’t leave each other’s side, unless necessary. When did you find this? It would have been very helpful to have known.” Nancy only agreed with her. “I thought so too. Apparently no one thought I could handle this case so they didn’t give this to me, until a moment ago.” “Wonderful” was Taylor’s only response. “Well then let’s go find these murderers” “That’s exactly what I was

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