Who Killed Mrs Brown?


Brown Mansion, Aceh-
Horrors of horrors! Rich socialite Mrs Brown has been found blungeoned to death in her bedroom on Wednesday night. A coroner's report states that she was killed with a hard blunt object and the killer was probably right handed. Her car key and a briefcase containing Rp 10,000,000 was found missing from her room.


4 teams of local detectives have been called in to work on this high profile murder that shocked the rich and filthy rich community. They zeroed in to 4 suspects. Was it Lucy the maid, who was quarelling with Mrs Brown before she was killed? Or Ahmad the driver who had earlier demanded a pay advance from her. Could it be Ms White, her debt ridden sister or Mr Brown, who needs the cash to save his ailing company?

Our young detectives left no stones unturned. They grilled each of the suspects with their newly learnt English questioning skills.

The distraught Mr Brown said: " Sob... how could Lucy do this... It just another big quarrel.... why must she kill her? Why...sob???"

Ms White offered the investigators a shocking piece of news. " It must be Mr Brown. It is not the cash he's after. Do u know he insured Mrs Brown for Rp10 billion? Thats enough money to save him from becoming a bankrupt."

Lucy was certain that it was Ahmad the driver who killed Mrs Brown: “Ahmad was demanding the money and I saw it myself! This morning, when I was cleaning the car, I found a blood stained briefcase in the car! "

Ahmad was however sure that it was Ms White: "I drove her to her friend's house but she sneaked back into the mansion! I saw her sneaking away through the backgate! Why would she do that unless she's the killer?"

The detectives were able to solve the case by piecing together the various testimonies. Insp Rojy of Investigation Team 1 who solved the case, issued a press statement: “We have arrested Ms White for the murder of Mrs Brown. Although she claimed that she was at her friend’s house, eyewitness Lucy has seen her sneak back into the Brown mansion and driver Ahmad saw her leaving the house hurriedly 15mins later. This coincides with the time Mrs Brown was killed.” Ms White has confessed to killing Mrs Brown with the briefcase. She had also took the car keys and placed the empty briefcase in the car to implicate Ahmad before she left the mansion.

Epilouge: Crime truely does not pay. Ms White has since been extradited to Singapore. She has been sentenced back to work in the real world. Cruel.


The above story was plotted as part of our programme to get the students to converse in English and to ask questions. Issac, Laura and me spend a good part of Tuesday evening thinking of the plot and subplots. We skipped some subplots we thought was confusing, even though they were hilarious, like having Ms White to be Mrs Brown’s evil twin sister.