LUFSA SCOTT DEAD AT 55
Reclusive painter found dead in country estate - Police suspect suicide by poisoning
Renowned, troubled and famously reclusive painter, explorer and dog-rearer, Madam Lufsa Scott (inset, right), has been discovered dead in her family-owned country estate, the Gazette has confirmed.
Previously an object of curiosity and attention for her adventurous spirit and history of excursions and voyages across the UPZ and beyond, Scott (Gnoll, 55) had scarcely been seen by any living soul for over three years, following her final voyage as kennel mistress on the 1883 expedition of the Candentia schooner Alert, now famous as the expedition that located and retrieved the ‘Kraken That Ends the World’, currently held within Atramentum’s own Arkham Canine Museum of the Occult. Reports indicate that Scott’s body was discovered in the art studio of her estate by housekeeper Enid Tosca, and showed signs of acute theobromine poisoning, which police now believe to be self-inflicted.
A lifelong confirmed spinster, Scott is reported to have arranged, by a correspondence of letters up until mere days before her death, that her entire estate – including the country house, an apartment in Candentia and a summer home in Icepoint – be inherited by her unmarried niece, Collie Wodehouse (Gnoll, 22), on the condition that she continue to provide for Scott’s four house servants and fourteen purebred husky dogs.
Tosca (Gnome, 119) revealed to one Gazette reporter that Madam Scott had been much plagued by nightmares and bouts of fitful melancholy since her experiences aboard the Alert. Many critics have opined the artist’s recent work suggested an afflicted mind.
