This mystery story takes place at the victim’s apartment where she was found by Detective Claire. The investigation team tried to solve the case, however all the clues they’ve found led to the only suspect, Bill Claire. However his wife, Scarlet is the actual murderer of Veronica Hamton and planned to hide the truth by blackmailing someone so that her husband’s charges could be dropped. The motive of the crime was due to love and revenge. The plot of the story is definitely mysterious as it contains various crime conventions such as clues, red herrings and foreshadowing. Red herrings portrayed in the story are, the knife which contains forensic evidence of the husband’s DNA, the apartment security person and the CCTV which caught him entering