#one person killing david melmont isn't enough he should be murdered by everyone

[theimprobable1]

The English “Murder on the Orient Express” AU that came to me last night when I couldn’t sleep:

Detective Marshall is investigating the murder of David Melmont. Suspects include Cornelia Locke, Thomas Trafford, Kills on Water, Martha Myers, Jed Myers, the list goes on. The evidence is contradictory and it seems like they all could have done it but at the same time like none of them could have done it.

Eventually, Marshall discovers that they all did it, and in fact Melmont deserved to be murdered more or less by everyone he’d ever met, but not before the investigation is severely disrupted by Marshall’s assistant Eli Whipp, who realised that Cornelia was guilty and has been tampering with evidence and concealing vital information to protect her.

Why did Eli deduce that Cornelia was guilty but not that the others were, too? Can’t say. Pure coincidence, probably. Maybe the others were simply better liars. It definitely wasn’t because he was in any way more focused on her than on any of the others. Unlike some men, he never even looked at her face, nope, not at all.