Potassium and Tiffany Lamp free essay sample

I believe that Horace Throat commited the murder of Mr. Dusty Mantel at the Inn owned by Mrs. Eve Dropper. Although all the occupants of the Inn had it in for Dusty due to his immoral means and conniving ways, only one of them brought his life to a sudden end. Both Anita Mann, his girlfriend, and Chester Drauers were conspiring against him. She wanted out of the relationship because she was â€Å"tired of Dusty beating on her† and Drauers wanted the Tiffany Lamp because he had knowledge of its true value. Drauers told Anita that he would take care of everything and later after the auction he phoned the mob boss, Don Angelini, for a hit on Dusty. Don said it would take two days time and there would be a man. Since two days did not pass from this call and there was no other man or suspect I ruled out Drauers and Anita’s involvement in his death even though they had direct contact with his tea cup. We will write a custom essay sample on Potassium and Tiffany Lamp or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page OJ Glasse was being blackmailed by Dusty Mantel, about the second and final Will that he discovered on his dead brother’s desk. He works for the FBI as a bio-chemist and would probably have access to potassium cyanide, but he â€Å"couldn’t even kill a rat for an experiment†, not to mention there was no direct opportunity after Dusty left to change. Tiffany Glasse had been robbed of her father’s fortune by Dusty, yet, she did not seem to know about it. She did know that he had outbid her for her mothers beloved Tiffany Lamp from which she was named. Eve Dropper overheard them arguing and yelling at each other, presumably about the lamp. She wasn’t near his table before he died and she did not have the opportunity to poison Dusty. Eve dropper was my next suspect idea, but I too, ruled her out as the murderer. She had it all, motive, opportunity and Ability (to some extend). She was the reason he left the room to change and he was about to inform her about the foreclosure on the Inn. There was only one commonality with the rat poison and the tea cup: Sodium, an alkaloid. Although he was poisioned, he was not poisoned with the rat poison found in the kitchen cabinet. And this brings me to the potassium cyanide that was found in the cups that Tiffany had won at the auction. She knew a lot about the compound and element, but she did put herself through pharmacy school so she would know all about it. And Dusty did cheat her with the lamp, but she did not find out until after the auction and it would take a while to order the cyanide from the supply house so it wouldn’t have arrived in time to poison Dusty. But the cups were in the possession of Horace Throat until he gave them to Tiffany. He received a threatening call from Don Angelini telling him that we was sick of his excused and that he wanted it, whatever it is, now. A note written by Dusty before he died said that he refused to loan Horace money again because he was gambling, so maybe â€Å"it† was money that he owed Don, who knows. But in Dusty’s refusal and getting half of the 3 million he expected, Horace was pretty upset. He could’ve used the cups to hold the cyanide before he gave them to Tiffany. He helped set up the table after Dusty left, perfect opportunity. The Tea cup also contained traces of Gold, Iron, Carbon and Sodium. Horace did restoration (gold candle sticks) work for both Drauers and Mantel, which explains were the gold came from and places his hands in the cup and he had possession of the cyanide trace cups before giving them to Tiffany Glasse. He had it all: motive, opportunity and ability. Dusty was an uncaring, ruthless, and evil man according to the suspects and it seems as though all the suspects had adewquate motives to murder him, but not all of them had the opportunity nor the ability to do so; expect Horace Throat.