It is a seasonal Halloween story, comprised of 31 Parts each written with 31 words, one for each of the thirty one days of October, with the story culminating on Halloween Night. I have further complicated it by challenging myself to produce it in the Acrostic poem form, based on the 'Thirty-one' letter word of the title 'The story that lasted thirty-one days'. It is related to the 2018 Poets Pub 31 Days of Horror Challenge book. The Poets Pub has issued a challenge to write 31 word poems for the 31 days of October. https://www.wattpad.com/user/NehpetsEnal Thank you. © All Rights Reserved by the Author Cover and Story by Stephen L W Lane aka NehpetsEnal

How do you solve a murder when every single suspect has a time machine? Time-travelling police officer Erik Midgard has a problem. He has seen his own future. His fate is set. There is no way out. There is nothing he can do to escape it. He is going to die. But in the meantime, he has a murder to solve. On the moons of Mars, 900 years into the future, the wealthiest men and women in the solar system are arriving for the biggest night in the social calendar. The invitations are exclusively for people rich enough to own their own time machines. It is meant to be the greatest party in history. No one is supposed to die there. But when the guest of honour is found dead after the last dance, Erik and his partner Mirabi find themselves facing the greatest challenge of their careers. Trapped in a luxurious mansion and surrounded by millionaires, lovers, enemies, assassins, terrorists, robot doubles, hidden grudges, secret agendas and a criminal genius plotting his masterpiece, Erik and Mirabi must solve the case before its consequences can explode across the solar system. But as they sift through the evidence and the details of the crime start to appear, Erik finds himself beginning to wonder. Is his destiny truly written in stone? Or could there be a way for him to change it? A Wattpad Featured Book Selected by the BBC for their official Doctor Who reading list.