Puzzle master
Chapter 1 The first puzzle
Unknown POV
Blood…lots of blood…deep red soaking the white carpet. It smelled soooo good. Sweet, wonderful, delicious.
Micks POV
I got the call early in the morning. A teenage girl killed in a hotel room late last night. Work of a vampire? Maybe. I'd have to check out the scene.
I arrived at the hotel around 8. A few police officers were talking by the front doors. They didn't seem to even notice me. Talk about lack of security.
The lobby was like any other 5 star hotel. Gold paint, antique furniture, crystal chandelier and the front desk. No one was there so he rang the bell. A jumpy looking girl came running, more like tripping, out of the hallway connected to the lobby.
"I am so sorry." She said, smoothing her hair. "You weren't waiting long were you?" she straightened her glasses.
"Not at all." I smiled, "Can you tell me what room that girl was killed in? I am a private detective, her parents hired me. And I will need a master key just in case I have to search the surrounding rooms."
"Oh," she looked a little surprised, "Your looking into Trisha's death?"
"You knew her?" I asked.
"Well," she looked uneasy, "I've worked here for about a year now. Trish' came about every month for business. So I knew her. She wound bring me lunch sometimes. The food here isn't that great. And sometimes if I worked that late shift she would come down and keep me company. I can't believe she's really gone."
"Do you know where she works?" the girl shook her head.
"Okay," I sighed. Nothing was ever easy. I took the key card from her.
"Oh," her face darkened. "She was in room 307 but moved yesterday afternoon to room 243. She looked upset about something when she came down to ask me for the room change."
"Thanks." I said and I headed for the elevator.
"Wait!" she called. "Her body wasn't found in her room."
She glanced around the lobby. "It was found in room 751. But no one had checked in for that room. The keys were here the whole time."
I got off the elevator on the 7th floor. I'd check the crime scene first. Room 751 was near the end of the hall. The door was roped off but there were no police anywhere from what I could see. The door was slightly opened. A blond girl was bent over staring at something on the desk.
"Figures you'd be here." I smirked as the girl jumped. She spun around.
"Mick," she looked sort of relieved. "You're such a jerk."
"Good to see you too, Beth."
She turned back to the desk.
"Have you found anything?" I asked.
She shook her head. "Not really. I just find it interesting that there are no officers or detectives up here…besides you of course."
"I was thinking the same thing."
"Could a vampire have done this?" she asked turning to me.
"I smell a vampire but it's so faint that it could have been that a vampire had just stayed here once."
"Well, whoever did this," she gestured toward the bed. "They made a huge mess."
There was a massive red stain in the carpet the size of a body. A vampire wouldn't have wasted the blood. Nothing in the room looked broken or out of place. I looked under the beds, in the closet, and in the bathroom. I even used the master key to get into the rooms next to 751. They all looked identical (minus the blood). I went back to the room with Beth.
"There are to many unanswered questions." I muttered. "To many puzzles."
"Wait." Beth looked from me to the desk and back again. "Puzzles. Mick you're a genius." She began to shuffle through the piles of paper.
"What are you looking for?" I asked a little confused.
"This." She pulled a purple folder from the stack.