Who Killed the Very Reverend Toby Spoon?

Interrogate the Suspects

"Please describe the events just prior to the discovery of the body."

Lord Snuffington responds...
Upon completing his dinner, Reverend Spoon stood up to leave and expressed his desire to return to the vicarage by way of Hollyshock's front garden, just outside the library. I offered to show him the door. While in the library, we struck up a conversation about the Congo. His brother is currently en route to serve as a missionary there, and, as it happens, I had just returned from an extended expedition to the area. I recommended that he peruse "Congo in a Canoe" -- a fascinating book of which I am the author. This led us to my private study, where I keep my copy. When I left the good reverend, he was sitting in my chair, completely immersed in my vivid accounts of jungle adventure. From the study I went to the drawing room, where I encountered Miss Bittles, with whom I had a brief conversation.

William Fitzwilliam responds...
What-o! Me? Very well then. Let's see. I last saw the reverend -- the Very Reverend Toby Spoon -- alive when he and Lord Snuffington left the dining room. That was immediately after Trolleybottom served this ghastly awful trifle. I didn't leave the dining room after that...well, except, I suppose, to answer the phone in the library. You see, I was expecting a call. A call -- oh, this is so dashed embarrassing -- a call from my aunt, for whom I agreed to purchase doilies...for her morning room. This was just a mo before Bittles left for the drawing room. I was back in a flash, I dare say.

Dr. Graham Taylor-Russell responds...
If memory serves, Chief Inspector, Snuffington left the room with the reverend. I then engaged in a heated debate with Miss Bittles. She had the audacity to doubt my statement that Proposition 22 of Book Two clearly asserts that "If in conjugate opposite sections a radius is drawn--" Oh, never mind that! Anyway, I stormed into the library to find "On Conic Sections," by the great Apollonius of Perga, in search of my proof. When I returned to the dining room, Miss Bittles left for the drawing room, probably seeking out her almighty "lord." She refused to hear me out!

You just can't reason with that woman.

"Squeezy" Bittles responds...
The last time I saw the "good" reverend, he was leaving the dining room with our oh so magnanimous host. I was sitting at the table with the others, talking quietly with Miss Hawkmoth, when I was verbally accosted by our good doctor. I mean, my god, talk about mentally unbalanced. He left the room. When he returned, I came to this room, the drawing room, where I bumped into Lord Snuffington. We had ourselves a chat, that delightful Snuffington and I, then both returned to the dining room. That's when we heard old Trolleybottom scream. What a performance!

Lavinia Hawkmoth responds...
Please forgive me if I seem a tad flustered. You see, I am not at all accustomed to this sort of excitement. Anyway, after dinner, Lord Snuffington and Reverend Spoon exited the dining room and entered the library. Several minutes later, Graham -- Dr. Russell, that is -- left to search for a book in the library, ostensibly to settle an argument with Miss Bittles, an argument she provoked with a derisive roll of her eyes. He soon after reentered the dining room, which prompted Bittles to leave. It was then that I decided to go for walk. I exited the manor through the library's French doors, but was soon after driven back inside by the approaching storm.

Mrs. Trolleybottom responds...
Well, Chief Inspector, after servin' my much-maligned trifle, I left the dinin' room for the kitchen. Several minutes later I entered the drawin' room, carrying a tray of drinks. `Ere I found `is Lordship, and `e accepted a liqueur. Then I preambulated to the Lord's private study, where I found Reverend Spoon, who was sittin' in `is Lordship's chair. Reading, `e was -- a book, I think. The vicar also `ad a liqueur. From there I went to the library, where I found Dr. Taylor-Russell. `E grabbed one from my tray, cheeky bugger. I then left him and entered the dinin' room, where I served the rest of the guests. About ten minutes later I returned to the dinin' room to collect empty glasses. I then went through the library to the private study, where I found a body slumped in a chair. At first I thought it was `is Lordship. It was, of course, Reverend Spoon, who was dead. What a sight that was, and no mistake.

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