Mideast Midwestern Muscle Murder Mystery: Raven: Mideast Midwestern Muscle Murder Mystery

By Brilliant Building

Who murdered "Prince" Musaed?
A dubious man of dubious wealth assembles a team of super-muscled super women, each of whom could snap his neck between their powerful thighs, but which of them, if any, did it?
Read each installment for clues — in any order — can you solve this freeform muscle murder mystery?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliant Building
• Release date: Apr 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393914969

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Table of Contents

MIDEAST MIDWESTERN MUSCLE MURDER MYSTERY: RAVEN

ONE YEAR BEFORE

JENNA’S FIRST CONTEST...

JENNA’S SECOND AND LAST CONTEST

AT WORK

AT THE MATRIX

THE DUNGEON

THE POSING ROOM

THE CHANGING ROOM...

AT HOME

NEGOTIATIONS

MIDEAST MIDWESTERN MUSCLE MURDER MYSTERY: RAVEN

OFFICIALLY, PRINCE Musaed died at 27 of a congenital heart condition, which broadly speaking was true, but the combination of alcohol, cocaine, and human growth hormone found in his system told a more detailed story. Raven, the female bodybuilder who found his body amidst the trashed hotel room also had a story to tell. He was murdered, she said between a drag of a shakily held cigarette. Another detail: by his brother.

ONE YEAR BEFORE

JENNA COULDN’T TELL if Musaed was joking when he said she should adopt the stage name of Crow.

It totally fits you. You have that whole goth-with-guns thing going on. The guns Musaed was referring to were Jenna’s bulging biceps, which appeared comically large on her short and small-boned frame. Jenna also had ghostly pale skin and refused to apply any spray tan or oil to it, mostly out of principle, but also because she tended to break out in an uncomfortable rash from cosmetics, which effectively put the kibosh on any kind of competitive bodybuilding career.

JENNA’S FIRST CONTEST...

... WAS SHEPHERDED BY a meathead boyfriend who had urged her to go through the over-the-top skin-darkening regime that, to Jenna, looked uncomfortably like a full-body blackface.

You’re lucky you don’t have to go through this. Jenna said to Sherry, a fellow gym-goer who also competed, and whose skin was naturally as richly dark as Jenna’s was paper white, and now due to dehydration, paper thin.

What do you mean? I spray-tan. A lot of black bodybuilders think they don’t have to spray-tan. That’s a rookie mistake. Sherry extended an arm and rotated her wrist to examine the striations in her forearms and shoulders with no small sense of satisfaction, but with also a sense of clinical detachment. Those stage lights wash everything out. To make these pop, you have to be blacker than black.

"But doesn’t this feel like putting