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The skull’s hollow eye sockets seemed to stare up at Jazmine Mandell as she examined the figure lying in front of her. While she couldn’t guess the time of death precisely, it was clear the body had been there for some time. Jazz, an amateur detective, loved investigating crime scenes, but this one had her stumped. She tucked a strand of long blonde hair behind her ear. ‘Can you tell anything from the X-ray?’ Across the room, Phoenix Lyons looked up from where he was examining a scan of the victim’s head, swiping his floppy dark fringe back from his grey eyes. ‘Yep,’ he replied. He pointed to a fracture on the left side of the skull. ‘You can see a jagged-edged hole just here. That indicates a fatal blow.’ He walked back to Jazz’s side and stood looking down at the bandaged body. ‘No doubt about it, this is a murder case.’ Jazz looked at the mummy resting in the decorative coffin in the Antiquities wing of the Knowledge Institute, the museum owned by her friend Mackenzie Zhang’s dad. ‘Shame we’re about 2500 years too late to investigate this case!’ Jazz laughed. ‘We’re not going to be able to find out anything about this mummy that archaeologists haven’t already.’ ‘Come on,’ said Phoenix. ‘We’d better get back to Anika.’ Jazz and Phoenix left the marble-columned room and headed for the Velocity wing, using their staff passes to take a short cut through the security office.