Bedford, Gumshoe and
Hemingway arrive at the Ocean House estate at 10 am, to find that the gas lamps
outside the hotel are lit; as they trio approach a lamp explodes, showering
them all in glass. Bedford tries to open the main doors to the hotel but finds
them locked and so the Bedford and Hemingway decide to search a workman’s hut
nearby for the key; neither of them find a key. Gumshoe decides to join the
other two in the workman’s hut but is injured by a rogue lumber cart - using a
strip of his clothes and alcohol in his hipflask, Gumshoe bandages his injured
leg. Afterwards Hemingway remembers that Miss Vixen had given them a key
beforehand and so she unlocks the main doors and the trio enter the Ocean House
hotel.
As Bedford, Gumshoe and
Hemingway enter the hotel, the main doors slide shut behind them, locking them
in. Hemingway slaps Gumshoe for having forgotten to get the key from the lock
as he entered last and therefore Gumshoe decides to climb out of a window to
retrieve the key. However when he gets to the main doors, the key is nowhere to
be found and is perturbed to find he can no longer find the window which he
climbed out of.
Gumshoe resolves to use a
stick of dynamite to blow open the main doors of hotel but actually sets off
the dynamite too early, vaporising his right hand. Howling in pain, he wraps
his coat around the stump which used to be his right hand and stumbles off to
the workman’s hut, where he slides down into a corner and slowly exsanguinates
to death.
Bedford and Hemmingway are unaware of their
colleague’s death having only heard the explosion of dynamite.
No further information is known
Piers
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