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A boy of six, Neil Spencer has been abducted in Featherbanks. The police led by Amanda Beck is investigating the case. Detective Pete Willis lived near the crime scene (the last place where Neil Spencer had been seen heading towards), so joined the search. Pete Willis had been responsible for catching Frank Carter also known as The Whisper man, who had murdered five children around twenty years ago. Frank Carter’s personality put a heavy toll on Pete, mentally; in that Pete had never been able to find the body of Frank’s last victim and Frank always teased him about it. The search goes on but to no fruition, until two months later when Neil Spencer’s body is found at the same place that he was taken from. The way the body had been arranged reminded the police of The Whisper Man. Even the name of the village was warm and comforting. Featherbanks. It sounded like a place where we would be safe. “Whispering,” Jake said quietly. “what?” “Whispering.” “It was whispering at my wind...

PLOT Barry Sutton, NYPD is on call for a woman attempting suicide by jumping off a building. When Barry reaches the floor to try to talk her off the suicide, she confesses that she has FMS, False Memory Syndrome. She tells him that one day she got a severe headache and nosebleed and she was in a place she had no idea how she got there. Also, she had memories of her life where she had a husband and a son and when she tried to contact her husband, she found out that he was married to his past wife who she remembers to have committed suicide by jumping off a building. "Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured." Barry is unable to save the woman and decides to meet the husband she talked about. At first, the husband straight up denies remembering her but afterwards gives him a call about doing something bad in a hotel. Barry finds the hotel and enters; her...

PLOT Eight people receive a letter by a wealthy Mr. U.N. Owen inviting them for holidays at Indian island. The invited people, neither have met each other before this trip, nor do they know Mr. Owen, nevertheless accept the offer. On reaching the island, they are greeted by two housekeepers who inform them that Mr. Owen has not come yet to the island. After going inside the house, a voice over a gramophone tells them that they all have committed murder for which they all are guilty. The rooms in the house have the poem “Ten Little Indians” on the walls. The poem tells the story of ten people who were killed in ten different ways. Murders of the occupants of the house, i.e. the people invited to the island start and they are killed one by one. I am not going to depict the killings in this post but they make for a short, intense murder mystery. The last person left, Vera Claythorne hung herself to death  after the murder she committed and the recent events dawned u...