Three

Humphrey stood in the bedroom with Florence, Fidel and Dwayne. The camera flashed again. "Well I think we can successfully determine the cause of death," Humphrey said pointing at the meat knife sticking out of her chest.

Florence rolled her eyes. "Yes Sir, it would also appear she was sleeping at the time she was stabbed. See the way she's curled up around the knife indicates whoever stabbed her did so in this position. Can you see the angle the knife is? It would be difficult to stab directly straight if she was curled up and as expected the knife wound is at an angle."

"Excellent work Florence. Ok Dwayne I want you to bag everything in this room including the suitcase, take it all down to the station and we'll sort through it there. Fidel, I want you to send her sleeping pills, the water and the knife off to the lab in Guadeloupe. Get forensics on it. Florence, you and I shall go question my nieces and nephews," Humphrey stated.

"urm Sir. I'm afraid we can't let you do that," Florence said.

Humphrey froze in his tracks. "Why not Florence?"

Florence glanced at Fidel who raised an eyebrow. "urm well sir, there's a conflict of interest. Firstly they are you're family so personal judgment may play a part in your ability to determine who did it. And secondly… you're a suspect," Florence rushed before stepping out the room and down the corridor.

"I'm a what?" Humphrey asked following her down the corridor. "How can you think that?"

"It's a precaution sir. One we have proved you couldn't have done it you won't be a suspect but at the moment we need to gather the facts," Florence said. She reached the living room and sat down in one of the spare chairs. Megan was curled up next to Alex with her head resting on his chest. Theo and Felix were sat across on the other sofa.

"Hang on, have you just called Uncle H a suspect?" Theo asked. Florence nodded. "Wicked!" Humphrey sighed and sat down next to Felix.

"I need to ask you all a few questions. Where did you last see Alice all of you?" Florence asked.

"In her bedroom. I went with her to help her with her sleeping tablets," Megan said.

"In the kitchen with Megan," Humphrey added.

"We all saw Megan walk Alice to the bedroom, that would have been the last time any of us saw her before I found her dead," Alex said.

"And you've all been in full view of each other since?" Florence asked.

"Well I was in the kitchen but I could hear the boys in the living room and when I wasn't in the kitchen I was on the veranda with Humphrey," Megan said. "There's CCTV out there apparently, I'm sure one of the boys can get it for you."

Felix nodded and went over to the DVD player and removed a disk. "It will be from when we arrived this morning till now," he said. "As for me I've been sat with the boys in here the whole time."

"On the veranda since Alice went to her room," Humphrey explained.

"In here with the boys," Theo confirmed.

"Same," Alex added.

"And none of you three left the room for any reason?" Florence clarified.

"Well we all did at some point. Alex went to the bathroom twice and into the kitchen to check on Meg. I went to the bathroom too. Theo didn't leave. But when one of us left the other two were always in sight," Felix explained.

"Meg is this true. Did Alex check on you?" Florence asked.

"Yeah, I was just finishing off the washing up when he came in and asked if there was anything he could do," Megan explained.

"Ok, thank you. If you wouldn't mind surrendering your passports just for a day or two and don't make too many plans to leave the island. We might need to question you again," Florence said. She stood up and Humphrey followed.

"I'm sorry about what's happened but it is a murder investigation," he said before leaving with Florence.