Bill Clark

**Bill Clark** (ビル・クラーク, *Biru Kurāku*) is a surgeon.

## Biography

### History

Seventeen years ago, Clark met the crescent moon man online. They met up in London where the man treated him to a meal, which consisted of multiple courses, and hired him for a job in exchange for an emerald: to examine a pregnant woman and give Jim Gore, who was accompanying her, an anesthesia shot at his hospital. Clark told Gore that the shot was a nutrient supplement. Afterward, he had to lay him in a flower bed behind the building.

### Plateau Auberge Serial Murders Case

Clark is invited to a dinner at the Auberge Reunion. He travels there and, at six o'clock, he heads to the dining room alongside all the other guests. There, they see that there is only a single round table for them all, and Clark laughs at the sight, remarking that it is a fun idea to make them all eat together. He also ponders whether they all have a connection to one another and says that while he understands that the situation is slightly embarrassing, he is famished.

Ron Kamonohashi agrees with him and calls him "Dr. Clark-kun." Surprised, Clark asks him how he knows that he is a doctor, and Ron replies that his pen light fell out of his pocket in the bathroom earlier and that he saw him rolling up his sleeves and carefully scrubbing his hands and arms—something doctors typically do. Ron adds that there were five more hints, but keeps them to himself as Clark would like to start dinner. Clark is impressed nonetheless.

Then, everyone sits down, and Shusuke Sakai brings out the courses one by one. Clark becomes uncomfortable at the sight of each of the four courses. When the fourth course is served, Clark excuses himself and stands up, saying that he is tired from his long trip and would go to bed.

The next morning, Clark hears commotion and goes to Lenny Gardner's room to find out what happened and learns that Gardner was murdered during the night. Totomaru Isshiki and Ron investigate the murder, and Toto asks Clark to help him with the corpse. Clark determines that Gardner died in pain about three or four hours ago.

Sakai then informs everyone that they have no phone signal, the landline does not work, and the mountain road is closed off due to a landslide. Clark and the others head to the nearby ropeway station, but it is out of service for the day and they have no way to escape from the plateau on which the auberge is located. Then, Sasaoka runs away into the woods, and Toto and Ron follow him after Toto urges the others to return to the auberge.

Later, back at the auberge, Karen Lily screams. Clark and the other guests hurry to her, and Lily tells them that she walked past the bathroom door when she saw that yesterday's menu was taped to it as well. The bathroom door is open, and they look inside and find Tom Sasaoka's corpse.

Clark examines the body and determines that the knife in his chest is the cause of death and that Sasaoka has not been dead for long. Afterward, Toto and Ron gather everyone in the dining room to ask them about their alibis at the time of Sasaoka's murder. Clark says that he was in his room. Nobody else has an alibi as well. Then, Toto reveals that Gardner's and Sasaoka's murders were modelled after dishes from yesterday's dinner: Gardner was covered in flowers (the edible flower salad), and Sasaoka was placed in red-colored water (the lobster soup). However, while Mia Costa and Sakai do not know the meaning behind the dishes, Sasaoka knew it—and so do Clark, Lily, and Tiger Dan.

Ron persuades them to confess, and the three admit to having been hired by a man with a crescent moon mark seventeen years ago. They were all treated to the same meal which had the same courses as yesterday's dinner, and they were all hired to do something in connection to the murder of Jim Gore and paid with emeralds. Gardner and Mia's mother were involved as well.

Because every other guest is connected to the Jim Gore Murder Case, Clark wonders what Ron's connection to it is. Lily and Dan note Ron's resemblance to the crescent moon man, and Clark suspects Ron to be the murderer. Totomaru reminds them that Ron was with him when Sasaoka was murdered and that he was only a child seventeen years ago. Afterward, Toto, Ron, Mia, and Lily decide to search the vacant rooms. Clark declines to participate in the search as he wants to rest after performing two autopsies on one day. He is also still tired from yesterday's taxing ropeway ride.

Later, Clark's corpse is found in the wine cellar covered in extinguishing foam as yet another reference to one of yesterday's dishes (fresh fish steamed with white wine and served with a foam garnish). Toto examines his body and notes that he died not long before he was found and that he was strangulated.

## Trivia

* Clark loves to study languages. He speaks five languages, including Japanese, English, and Elvish.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 38, page 18
2. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 40, pages 12-13
3. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 38, pages 17-23
4. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 39, pages 3-10
5. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 39, pages 18-19
6. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 40, pages 3-16
7. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 41, pages 3-7
8. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 41, pages 19-20
9. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 42, pages 4-5
10. ↑ *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga; Chapter 38, page 20