Beschreibung
The Skagen painter Ninus Simonsen was discovered dead in his studio yesterday, Saturday, July 10, 1909, in a pool of vomit, foam, and blood by his friend Michael Ancher.
Although the studio was secured from the inside, preliminary inquiries indicate that a crime might have been committed because Ninus was discovered wounded after taking a severe blow to the back of the head.
According to Ancher, Ninus’s wife, Pauline Simonsen, and the maid, Miss Klara Skagen, left on Friday, and efforts are underway to locate them.
You have been dispatched as an investigation unit from the Frederikshavn Police District, and when you arrive on the morning train at Skagen Station, you are met by Constable Sofus Madsen.
Under normal circumstances, Madsen constitutes the entire police force for Skagen’s approximately 3,000 permanent residents, maintaining law and order from the police station in an annex to his private home opposite the courthouse.
Fortunately, serious crimes are very rare here in town, for it is an open secret that Madsen is most at home on the sofa in his private quarters. Both within and outside the force, he is therefore best known by the name Sofa Madsen.
But how could Ninus have been killed in his studio when the door was locked from the inside, and who killed him?
Step into the story set in a time when Skagen’s artists“ colony is struggling to hold together, despite artistic disagreements, infidelity, intrigue and death.
Assemble your best investigative team and solve the mystery of the murder in the locked room.
Starting point:
Skagen Station
Sankt Laurentii Vej 22
9990 Skagen
