2ND DRAFT OF, PROLOGUE, ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA.

2ND DRAFT OF: PROLOGUE: ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA

ENGLISH BREAKFAST TEA
BY
BINA SHARIF
(copyright):binasharif 2019

DETECTIVE:HARRY CUMMING

PROLOGUE:

A TOP MOST BRITISH THEATER CRITIC DANA AUSTIN

WAS MURDERED IN NYC A FEW WEEKS AGO.

SHE HASN'T BEEN IN NY FOR VERY LONG TIME BUT HAD BECOME THE MOST

FEARED CHIEF DRAMA CRITIC.

HER THEATER REVIEWS MADE OR BROKE THE SHOW

MOSTLY BROKE IT.

AFTER HER GHASTLY REVIEWS, PLAYWRIGHTS NEVER WORKED AGAIN.

PRODUCERS COULD NEVER SELL THE MOVIE RIGHTS OF THOSE FAILED PLAYS.

MOST OF THE PRODUCERS LOST MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, LEFT THEIR PROFESSION

AND BECAME REAL ESTATE OWNERS AND BUILD HUDSON YARD IN MANHATTAN...

TO TAKE REVENGE ON THE AEASTHETICS OF ART, THE ARTIST AND THE CRITIC.

IF SOME ONE RING YOUDETESTED YOU AND WANTED YOU TO DIE, THEY WON'T

HAVE TO THINK OF MURDERING YOU, THEY CAN SUGGEST FOR YOU TO VISIT

HUDSON YARD ON 3OTH ST AND 11TH AVE...

YOU WILL JUST DROP DEAD THERE BECAUSE OF LACK OF AIR AND OXYGEN...

"JUDGE WILL GIVE HIS VERDICT,  "NO CRIME WAS COMMITED, THE VICTIM DIED

OF HIS OWN FREE WILL.  HE WAS A FAILED PLAYWRIGHT BECAUSE OF Ms.AUSTIN'S

REVIEW AND HE JUST WENT TO HUDSON YARD TO DIE."

BUT FORGIVE ME.

I DIGRESS.

I AM HERE TO QUESTION ONE OF THE SUSPECTS IN DANA AUSTIN'SMURDER.

THERE ARE A FEW SUSPECTS BUT I AM HERE TO QUESTION NADANI,

THE HOUSE KEEPER OF Ms. AUSTIN.

DANA AUSTION WAS BRITISH AND NADNI IS INDIAN.

AND IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF BRITISH AND INDIA'S HISTORY,  IT WOULD

MAKE NADNI THE ,"PRIME SUSPECT"

DANA AUSTIN WAS MURDERD WIITH A TEA BAG, ENGLISH BREAKFAST

TEA BAG NEVERTHELESS.

THE TEA BAG WAS LACED WITH A KIND OF POISON WHICH TAKES IT'S TIME

AND KILLS A BIT SLOWLY AS COMPARED TO THE FAST KILLING POISON

WHICH KILLS INSTANTLY.

THE KILLER  WAS SMART.


THE SECOND SUSPECT IS Ms. DANA'S WEALTHY EX HUSBAND'S CHILDREN.

HER EX HUSBAND DETESTED HIS CHILDREN AND CALLED THEM ,"BRATS."

AND LEFT ALL HIS MONEY IN HIS WILL FOR Ms. AUSTIN.

I DON'T BLAME HIM. CHILDREN ARE NOTHING BUT TROUBLE..

THAT'S THE REASON I DON'T HAVE CHILDREN MYSELF.

I WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM MYSELF AND SAVED ME A LOT OF MONEY

BY NEVER HIRING ANOTHER DETECTIVE.  I AM THE DETECTIVE MYSELF.

I WOULD HAVE SOLVED THE MURDER MYSTERY MUCH FASTER.

I WOULD HAVE TOLD THE JURY,

"HEY YOU IDIOTS, I DID IT.  I KILLED MY
.
AWFUL, STUPID, UNGRATEFUL MONSTERS NAMED, "CHILDREN"  MYSELF.

NO ONE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED ME AND THE JUDGE WOULD HAVE PUT SOME

INNOCENT IMMIGRANT OR A BLACK PERSON IN JAIL FOR LIFE.

 OR EXECUTED THEM WITH LETHEL INJECTION. I DIDN'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN

 SO I DECIDED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN.

BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT MY UNBORN BRATS, THE CASE IS ABOUT DANA AUSTIN..

SHE DIED ON THE NIGHT OF THE OPENING OF A NEW PLAY CALLED, "SUSPICION"

BY A BRAND NEW PLAYWRIGHT, MAGRATH MAGRATH...

WHAT KIND OF A NAME IS THAT?

WELL, WELL, THE PRODUCTION TEAM DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE THE RISK

OF A GHASTLY REVIEW BY HER SO THEY KILLED HER.  SIMPLE AS ALL THAT.

THAT IS ONE POSSIBILITY. BUT THERE IS MORE DRAMA IN THIS DRAMA.

 BESIDE THE PEOPLE IN THE PRODUCTION UNIT THERE IS ONE MORE SUSPECT.


Mr. TUSCONY, BILL TUSCONY, DANA AUSTIN'S YOUNG LOVER WHO WAS AFTER HER

MONEY.

A HANDSOME HOODLUM, HIDDEN IN AN ARMANI SUIT.

SHE WAS CRAZY ABOUT HIM.

A BRILLIANT WOMAN IN LOVE WITH A HUSTLER,  IT'S BEYOND ME.

LONELY PERHAPS...

GOING TO THE THEATER EVERY NIGHT AND WATCHING STUPID PLAYS?

 THOSE MUSICAL AND SILLY SHOWS DON'T NOURISH ONE'S SOUL AND WHEN SOUL

 IS HUNGRY, ONE IS VERY, VERY LONELY.

SO SHE HUNG ON TO BILL'S GOOD LOOKS.

HE GAVE HER SEX

AND WANTED MONEY IN RETURN.  HE FOOLED DANA AUSTIN.

SHE BELIEVED BILL LOVED HER...

COME ON, GIVE ME A BREAK.


MONEY AND REVENGE...TWO GREAT MOTIVES TO KILL.

BILL TUSCONY'S MOTIVE WAS, "MONEY"

AND NADNI'S MOTIVE WAS, "REVENGE"

STILL NADNI IS BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT PRIME SUSPECT IN THIS MURDER

MYSTERY.

SHE IS INDIAN HOUSE KEEPER OF A BRITISH LADY WITH CENTURIES OF ANGER

AGAINST THE BRITISH COLONIALISM... AND THE BRITISH LADY IS DEAD,

 KILLED BY AN ENGLISH BREAKFAT TEA BAG LACED ITH POISON?

WHAT AN IMAGINARY REVENGE MURDER CASE...I LOVE IT.

(looks at his watch)


AND WHERE IS SHE?  MAKING A DTECTIVE WAIT...SHE MUST BE FRIGHTENED TO

DEATH.

(looks at his watch again...looks up, see her entering the room)

HERE SHE COMES

(Nandani enters, he stand up, make a gesture for her to sit down.  she sits, he sits after her, silence for a few seconds)

HARRY CUMMING: (Speaks)





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