Creativity Assistance

[Synt4x]

There's this assignment I have for Spanish class where I have to write a 5-minute-or-so dialog. My group decided that it was going to be a murder mystery set in a mansion. It's due Monday, I have to write the whole thing myself. Problem is, I can't write mysteries. I need ideas, badly.

The unchangeables: It's a murder mystery in a mansion, and there are 4 characters. We may be able to get a fifth actor if they only have a few lines.

Since it's in Spanish, it doesn't have to be a masterpiece. It just has to make sense.

 

[adumbrodeus]

Interesting....

How about a story involving an earnest-seeming cripple murdering a businessman during a party at his mansion and laying down a trail of false evidence that convinces almost everyone to think it's a former convict (assault). Two of the businessman's friends aren't quite so convinced however...

Just a basic idea, I suggest having the cripple very manipulative but in a way that SEEMS innocent, forthright, and earnest, at least if you don't know what he/she/ is doing. That is, if you decide to use this idea.