Year 1889, war is finally over leaving a dust in every street. I was living in my old apartment where there are two big windows for me to see the people outside talking how cruel the world is,unstable ceiling,a messy things but still able to find the specific things I need and last but not the least my small table where I use my typewriter to make a novel.
My novels aren't that popular, most people told me it was boring and  find my inspiration than writing a novel for me to survive.
I have a normal and peaceful life until someone knocked on my door. I don't expect any visitors nor a single worm.
At first I thought it was only a mistake or an accident but truly there's nothing such as accident. Everything happen for a reason and that was the day where my life changed.
As I opened the door,I saw an average man with a wet clothes because of the heavy rain outside and wearing his fancy black hat like he's living in a wealthy family. Also I saw his mustache and wrinkles.

" Is Mr.Nicholas Mess present?"
" It is I talking "
" Your brother wants to talk to you "
" for what purpose? "
" A celebration "

I actually have no idea what came into my mind but I said yes anyway. So I left my apartment with the man named Thomas who is also know to be a policeman.
Despite of having a unfriendly weather we still decided to continue. We came to the party just in the right time. As I do my first step infront of the gate, I've forgotten how enormous the mansion was. It is a combination of white and gold, lights that are pretty bright,a lot of rooms and of course a lot of people.
Even though with the huge amount of people, the place is still peaceful.

"Ahh! You made it!" Said from a familiar voice behind me. As I turned around I realized how he truly changed. His hair grown so fast,the pure and innocent brown eyes became mature.
"Brother" said I.
As we hug each other I realized the tall pale looking guy behind him,wearing a fancy hat,a red scarf and a black and grey coat.

"Ahh! This is Mr. Edison Claude the finest detective you can have our this city."
"Well, its an honor to meet you detective" said I,while offering my hand to Mr.Edison Claude.
"So do I." Said he, then answered my offer.

While having his hand on mine, he gave me a stare that I've never seen before. He paused for a bit and smiled for a short period of time. I have no idea what is that for but I did not mind it at all.

"Gentlemen,why dont we seat down?"
Said my brother Alexander, Alex for short.
We respecfully sat down with other two gentlemen and they started to talk about how their lives turned out. It was fun hearing their stories but I'm not in the mood for me to share mine. Besides I don't even know how to tell them how I sucked at everything. The only thing that I'm good at is something beyond the law.
"How about you brother? Anything to share?"
I was about to open my mouth but suddenly something happened.

There was a young lady who screamed so loud, loud enough for it to echo in the whole mansion. The cheerful night stopped,everyone looked so confused and nervous. I ran toward the place where we heard the screaming. Until I saw a dead man laying on the chair as I examined the Mayor who is well known to be addicted to papers. As I looked at him there's a bubbles inside and outside of his mouth and a terror on his face. Then suddenly I saw Mr.Edison appeared and shouted.

"EVERYBODY QUIET!"

The whole crowd became silent as the stars. He examined the dead Mayor.

" poison " said he.
" obviously " I answered.

He gave me a looked that he seems impressed that he wanted to challenge my criminal skills.
Mr.Edison came closer to the mayor's corpse and found something.
A letter with a thick paper on it. As we observed the letter, there's a blood of the mayor on the edge of the paper, you can also smell something bad like a dead rat and and a spanish word :

"Adios"

Mr.Edison stepped few backward and looked at me with a smile.

"so what do you think boy genius?"
"Well based from what I observed, the mayor was poisoned because of the food he ate" said I then crossed both of my arms.
"Then you didn't observe well. How will you explain the reason why are these people are still alive? If they ate the same food?" Said he.
I heard the people around me talking and it gave me anxiety.
" so what's the reason then?" I asked in a calm voice.

" If you observed well. The reason why this person is dead, it is because of this letter. The killer knew that the mayor is addicted to papers or letters so he poured the paper with a poison that explained us the bad smell but the poison only be effective if you scratch yourself on it like what happened to our mayor. The paper is also thick enough for the mayor to have papercut that results to be infected.
      " That's not all. After he scratched himself he sipped the blood which he did not know that it is already infected. Case solved. That's how the mayor died " He explained while looking at me with his blue eyes.
" obviously " Mr.Edison continued

But after his long explaination. I asked him the real question.
"Who killed the mayor?"
Mr.Edison hold the letter and walked for a bit farther than me and stopped.
" May I introduced to you. The man who killed the mayor. Mr. Small " said he, as he pointed the letter to Mr. Small who is actually the private mailman of the mayor.
Mr.Small is a small man,with a small brown bag with a keychain on it,wearing old brown long sleeves and thick pants.

He did not deny the crime he committed and told us that Mr.Edison was right but I still have no idea why would Mr. Small would do such thing to our mayor?

I was standing beside the gate of the mansion while I used my pipe to smoke until someone gave me company. It was Mr. Edison, who is actually a tall man.

"So you're an author?"
"Eh? How di- I didnt even mentioned that? You're a fan?"
"A figured"
"How exactly?" I asked.

" The black ink from your right hand where you usually uses to write your draft, after that you'll have to use the typewriter for a long period of time and wash your hands but that wont remove the ink that fast also it results to your shaky hands. And as I observed you you're such a desperate man who wants to put his work to be the number one novel that resulted to eye bags" He explained it accurately that I have nothing more to say.

"one more thing"
"Hmm?" He smiled.
"Do you know the reason why Mr.Small do such thing?when he was paid by the mayor much higher than the other employees?"
"Well just like what I told you. If you observed well you'll figure it out by yourself. As you can see, Mr.Small wears an old brown long sleeves
where he hides his bruises from the abusive Mayor and you see the keychain? It was made by his daughter who is secretly being slaves by the mayor." He again explained and now Im very speechless. Mr.Edison gave himself a deepbreath.
"so you want to go for some adventures?" He asked.
"Count me in" I answered.