This is the “Behind The Scenes” post for the story “Warrington“. Please feel free to read that first, if you want to avoid spoilers…
This is 28th story of the year, so it’s the second of the stories using the random letter. Again, I copped out and made it a character’s name – sorry. Warrington is named after one of my favourite actors, Don Warrington. Rossi, on the other hand, I picked from a genealogy list of popular Italian surnames; it was only later that the show “Criminal Minds” popped into my head…
This one came together quite easily. In fact the difficult point was where to begin, and then I went almost straight through to the end quite easily. I was quite happy with the foreshadowings in this one – the orders the painter picked up, the bad review, the fact that Rossi is the only journalist that Warrington would accept to interview him (which I tried to imply, I don’t know whether that came over well enough).
So how did he do it? Quite simply – a brewer’s demijohn, filled with household chemicals to produce chlorine gas, which is then piped through the keyhole. Naturally, he’s sealed the other parts of the door from the other side…
When I made the Facebook post for this story, I had a really great comment to put in, the problem being that it was would spoil the ending. Unfortunately, since Saturday, I’ve forgotten it, alas. Oh well – let’s see if I can come up with something for Saturday based around the letter X…
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