Nutsy is frankly surprised and a bit glad to see Inspector Roquefort LeBrie also on the case. The Inspector greets Nutsy with a warm smile.

"Good to see ya! This one's a baffler, so maybe we should team up, since the last person in the world I wanted to see here was him!"

He jerks his thumb at a garishly dressed leprechaun chatting to the desk clerk.

"Who is he?"asks Francine.

"Paddy O'Shamus," and to hear him tell it he's the best sleuth on the planet. Just the biggest blowhard, if you ask me. Quick, let's go up to the scene of the crime before he gets in our hair."

They mount to the third floor and survey the murder scene. It looks exactly as described in the dossier. Ciaran MacPherson seemed a very ordinary person. Yet his death was...odd.

"Here's a copy of the autopsy report," LeBrie hands the sheet to Nutsy. "The victim suffered severe internal injuries, consistent with blunt force trauma. His body had broken ribs, lacerations to the liver and scrotum, and a hole in his heart. There was, however, no bruising or any other obvious signs of a beating. The medical examiner listed his manner of death as a homicide."

"In a room locked from the inside and with no disturbances," Nutsy replied, shaking his head.

Francine looks around while the two fellow detectives talk, and suddenly lifts something from the wastebasket, and then lets out a gasp when she turns to the right. "Look, there's a slight gap in the wall!"

LeBrie and Nutsy peer closely and see that there is a small indent in the wall between MacPherson's room and the room next door. It appears to have been hastily plastered over.

"You're right," says Nusy, "and what did you pick up?"

"Oh, this? It's a candy wrapper, one of those 'solve the puzzle and win a prize' ones. This one wants you to insert two letters in the exact center of each six-letter word listed to complete a common, uncapitalized eight-letter word. It seems fun, but I'll put it back so I don't disturb the crime scene."

"Wait," says LeBrie, whipping out this notebook. Give us the words. You never know what a clue might look like."

Francine lists the words:

"Oh, one of those!" The hotel manager scoffs as he enters with Seamus in tow. "It's just a wrapper. Ciaran left them all over. He loved his candy." Shamus looks the trio up and down and smirks.

"We're in for some ride," Nutsy murmurs under his breath.

(OOC: Is it just a wrapper, or perhaps more? It's worth three clues for your team to solve the puzzle, and each team may now ask three yes or no questions about what you know so far. If you want more, you will have to use your extra clues. Clue scores have been updated and you may use these whenever you like during the mystery. You may not ask who the murderer is or how it was committed. That's what you're here to solve. You have until Saturday, March 30, at 11:59 p.m. Subeta time to ask your questions and turn in your puzzle answers if you choose to solve it. Partial puzzle solutions with at least half of the words will net one clue. and solutions with only one of two unsolved will net two. Please have your team leader smail you questions and solution. Good luck, detectives!)

"Blowhard?" Paddy O'Shamus repeated coming up to Francine several moments later. "Ya know lass, we leprechauns have wonderful hearing. It's a shame ya're letting ya're petty jealousy get in the way of the case." When he looked at the paper he said, "I'll solve this clue before all the others have time to read it!"