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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Kalafus, post: 280051, member: 139751"] Well, the 'Captain Willmott was poisoned' theory falls apart because it reduces the number of probable suspects down to exactly one- the steward who served Willmott his last meal. The finnan haddie was not a custom order- it was on the menu that night. That eliminates the chefs from the conspiracy, since no one chef could have known that the portion he was preparing was destined for the captain. Once the destination of that order was known, then the assassin would have to be standing at JUST the right spot to learn that the tray was being sent up to the captain, and would have had to have been both very fast AND very lucky to poison the food unobserved. The only person known to have been alone with the food for any amount of time was the steward who carried it from the kitchen to the captain's cabin. Might he have been part of a conspiracy? Possible, but not likely. If it wasn't for the enema request, I'd place the fish itself high on the list of suspects. The effects of food poisoning can be particularly catastrophic on an older person. But because he was apparently...uhhh...blocked, rather than the opposite, that can be eliminated. [/QUOTE]