THE HALF LEAF

 I would like to say sorry to all of you to keep you waiting for the next part of my story.

Since our last case  MD had been busy with building some bomb kind of thing, but it would take some more weeks to complete , we got to know because of  VJ's resources. He'll come to us to challenge us and find it out where will he deploy it, thought all of us except our very own Vaibhu.  He smiled . We used to get irritated by his grin and expression less face. We all were now living a normal life in Leeds. Going shopping with ladies of our group , even trying to impress one of them. We all were happy , and one fine day came our next case.

MD came to us and said that a man in our neighborhood  had died, the killer was "Mr.Momos". Prove it and each of us gets a Ferrari. We were happy. Vaibhu came into the room and said "We don't work for you, get lost".

"OH! My angry young man , you won't be pleasured by a Ferrari , I knew that . You'll  be getting a access to all my records of people i.e. my contacts as they're right now. What do you say. Actually then you might get enough evidence to encounter me ."

Vaibhu nodded  and said "in how much time?"

MD got up and went to the door and before leaving wrote on a slip "before he leaves the city, mesor". And he left.

Preety picked it up and said "he should work on his spellings, spelt messier wrong"

We rushed to the neighborhood . We saw a man had been killed. The body was lying on a bed with a man holding a lappy in his hand. He was probably watching a video on chemistry. No signs of forced handling were seen. The room looked normal.  The man was having popcorn before he died. He also ahd a bag beside him. Nothing much in it though.

"Probably poisioned " said Rj. Nihu agreed by saying that other means of assassination would have shown signs of forced handling. I took the computer and tried to find out what the man had been previously  been doing on the lappy.

While I was busy in the lappy Vaibhu went to the kitchen to check how was the poison given. He had taken his meals nearly an hour ago. Vaibhu came back to the room and then went to the empty plate in which the finished food was placed. Only a part of a leaf(sed for garnishing was left). He picked it up with forceps and smelled it. "BELLADONNA" he said. My ears had heard that voice and I just went to Vaibhu, out of curiosity.

VJ was a weapon expert so he explained to all of us about belladonna. "This was a favorite of the ladies! The name of this plant is derived from Italian and means beautiful woman. That’s because it was used in the middle-ages for cosmetic purposes – diluted eye-drops dilated the pupils, making the women more seductive (or so they thought). Also, if gently rubbed on their checks, it would create a reddish color, what today would be known as blush! This plant seems innocent enough, right? Well, actually, if ingested, a single leaf is lethal and that’s why it was used to make poison-tipped arrows. The berries of this plant are the most dangerous – consumption of ten of the attractive-looking berries is fatal."

So, this was sure that the man was poisoned . Usually in these kinds of poisoning the mind remains awake and the body lower than the abdomen paralyses , as and when the poison acts body fails and then respiratory system shuts down.

We all were in a truce as no evidence of mr. momos was there.

Vaibhu went into a deep thought.  Then he came back and said check his lappy. The man can't move once he has taken the poison. He can leave a note only on a lappy. Since the man was here till he died as the man has died over an hour but the oven was still on so, the killer killed him and then baked a cake and ate it before leaving. As the killer was in front of him and this man had got a window only when he went to the kitchen. Till that time his legs were already paralyzed and he couldn't move. Not internet connection can be  seen , so the man can make a note only on his lappy. Check it.

I went to the lappy and then checked everything but nothing was there. I said even if he had written anything the killer would have erased it.

KEYLOGGER exclaimed RJ. Yup and fortunately we found one .

The man had written a morse code

.. .----. --   .--. --- .. ... --- -. . -..   -... -.--   -.. . .-. -... -.--   .- -.- .-   -- --- -- --- ...   --..--   --. . -   .... .. --   .. -.   -. . ... - ..-. .. -..- -..-   ....- ..... ....-

Meaning

i'm poisoned by derby aka momos , get him in nestfixx 454

so, the case ended as we had got the dying statement of the victim and was enough to sentence the killer. Arrests would be done by police.

Vaibu got text saying" well done ma boy" - MD