the Mystery of Sam's Death

The Mystery of Sam Adams’s Death Writers’ Cramp

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Sam Adams was a paranormal detective
For the Cosmos Institute in Berkeley, California
A real-life X files funded by black CIA money

Their mission explaining the unexplainable
Explaining the paranormal
Exposing hoaxes and fraudulent claims
Of the supernatural

One day his uncle died and left him
An old haunted house in Eagle Creek, Oregon
A small southern Oregon town
That Sam had grown up in.

He had not been back
In decades as he had grown up
In a dysfunctional family
Spoke to his siblings once a year
His father and mother have long gone.

In the house, they found the dead body
Of his distant eccentric uncle
Who left beside his body,
A letter, his will, and the infamous Neromicron
A book bound in scarlet leather.

The letter ended,

“Turn to page 666, and recite the chants
The truth will set you free.”

He started chanting
A spinning scarlet portal appeared
The grim reaper walked through.

Sam Adams asked him
“What happened to my uncle”

The grim reaper said
“He got what was coming to him
As all who summons us to do.

Be prepared to meet your maker
For judgment day is at hand”.

Sam spends the night
At the mansion where his uncle had left him
Sorting through his stuff.

The next morning a crater
Was found where the house had stood.

And his notes left behind
The scarlet leather bond Necromicron
Solved the mysteries of his uncle’s death
And his disappearance.

On Dec 1st, 1887, the first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet", appeared in print.

Write a poem or story in which:
* The narrator/POV character is a detective (or his assistant)
* A mystery is solved by the end of the piece
* One of the clues used to solve the mystery is scarlet

One of your genres must be MYSTERY

NB: The mystery can be 'traditional' (e.g. solving a murder), more light-hearted (who stole my socks?), or even more abstract (figuring out the cause of galaxies' redshift).