The rotten yellow fetid corpse slowly dripped blood, which pooled on the floor. It smelled like Lemon’s old socks. The head barely had any flesh at all, it was pure bone, skin and gristle. The eyes were torn out of their sockets. In fact, one of the eye sockets had bone sticking out. The teeth were mostly yellow, some black. All were chipped and bloody. Half the scalp had been pulled away, revealing knife cuts on the skull. I investigated closer. The front of the chest was missing,  showing damaged ribs and a squashed bloody heart. The lungs, soaked in blood, had similar cuts as the ones on the skull. The neck was bent backwards in an unnatural manner, and certain bones were poking through the skin. The legs were sawed through in five places and dislocated. Based on my observations, I concluded that this unfortunate person had been sawed for a long time, purposefully to cause the most pain possible. The feet had no toes, only bloody stumps. I noted with interest the toe-stumps had the same knife cuts as the skull and lungs. I noted this as important. But I had to delve deeper. When you’re a down-to-earth detective fox you need to finish the job. I checked the dried blood for fingerprints and footprints. Eventually, on the dead body’s very brain I find a fingerprint. I look at my notes. The client was right. The knife cuts exactly match cuts from Princess Terrett’s kitchen knife and the bloody fingerprint perfectly matches Princess Terrett’s. I look again at the gory, bloody, evil murder scene. My theory: this person angered Princess Terrett. I write my theory inside my now bloodstained notebook.

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