To Catch A Murderer...
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MatureComplete Thu, May 17, 201832m
A private event, hosted by famous author Ford Atkins at one of the biggest hotels in the city, turns into a fiasco revolving around the brutal murder of Atkins on that very night.
A cast of various people, each seeming to have a vendetta against Atkins, make for one of the most compelling, hard-to-solve mysteries on Wattpad. Please enjoy the short story, "To Catch A Murderer..."!
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