In which Janine makes a startling realisation… while waiting in an elevator.
Show Notes
The detectives are usurped before they can returns to investigate the scene of the crime. Jimmy Kolchack finally catches them and he’s glad to have caught all four. Janine mule kicks him, sending him onto the floor in a heap. They escape to gather their thoughts in a safe haven: the hotel elevator.
Up and down they go, again and again as they try and figure out what exactly is going on. McGrain begins to ruminate on something from earlier. Something he noticed about Maguire’s corpse before they had that unfortunate pratfall.
Vultour, meanwhile, is being plagued by annoying jingly elevator music. McGrain says there was a bloody gash on the side of Maguire’s head. A gash that wasn’t there when they first found his body…how curious! Vultour thinks he has it! They stumbled upon the body before the killer had finished the job! But why was he moved back to the drawing room? Janine says there’s only one potential conclusion: it was a decoy.
Somebody is trying to distract all of the detectives at the convention! But why?
In their excitement they forget to keep pressing the button on the elevator. It stops. It dings. The doors open. Standing in front of them is the hotel maid. They continue deducing and realise that Maeve Munroe is behind the distractions and she must be the one Moriarty hired to stop them arriving. Then they murdered Basil in order to create a decoy to steal Lovejoy’s precious antique collection. Then it drops. Maeve Munroe is masquerading as the maid!
A silence ensues. They arrive at the ground floor. The door opens and with that, a tornado of fighting bodies falls out into the lobby.
What is The Vultures Murder Mystery Hour (And A Bit)?
A suspenseful murder mystery unfolds at Wisteria Lodge, home to the Detective Union of Ireland AGM. Can the dicks at Vultures Private Investigations find out who killed Ireland's most famous detective before the clock runs out? Supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland through the television license fee.