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Oh, this is gonna be good I can tell.

Maybe something akin to "Bone Collector"

If Bruce is confined to a chair for weeks, then Team bat is gonna be his eyes and ears here.

Which puts Selina in the painful position of either:

A) Making her status as a member of Team Bat official , (A title that, admittedly has belonged to her in most practical ways for a good five stories now)

B) Taking the position of Bat-Nurse in the cave while Bruce directs the operation.

Those are the only options I see, I just cannot see her staying upstairs the whole time.

The way this is reading is like one of those great whodunits. The attention to detail (with psychological notes and descriptions of what Selina was wearing and why, etc) read like something out of Dashiell Hammett.

Also, the format of explaining this to Bruce over the phone merges Chris' Style with the noir detective style really well, because it let's Selina play the lone detective without taking away any of the 'cat-and-bat' play.

The scene with Alfred/Dick is either a secondary storyline, part of the main storyline that we can't see the connection to yet, or pure misdirection, just like any mystery would give you. Of course, having Nightwing there gives us the added benefit of detectives bouncing ideas off each other.

So, we have Selina as Bat-Agent (and oh, man alive there's going to be some fallout from that) with the cast of characters. We have the staff rummaging rooms and fellow guests looking for valuable or at the very least hidden and secret things. All the earmarks of the best whodunits.

Except in the Agatha Christie type stories, nobody goes anywhere. Trapped by a storm or an avalanche of something. If the party's breaking up then it means this chase goes all the way back to Gotham for team Bat to work on. The 'Armchair Detective' thing works over a city too, thanks to Oracom.

Start taking notes people.

And those who want to solve the mystery themselves had better skip over the rest of the review. These are just my thoughts.

First thought: Smart money says that whatever she was killed for, it was in the bottle, not the safe. If it was valuable, it would have to be hidden, so my guess is that Noel did a little misdirection. Anybody without the know-how of Catwoman would have to search the room (Beyond the oil paintings) to find the safe, and even if they cracked it they would find a fake jewel. So if it was something valuable enough to kill for, she'd put it somewhere nobody would think of.

I just typed that and realized that three people thought of it in the space of a paragraph and a half.

Second thought: There have to be two or more people involved. Without checking the body for the cause-of-death, and assuming foul play given the nature of the fic, then the killer wasn't after the… whatever it was. Because if you're going to kill someone in their room for their valuables, you don't wait till after you killed them and the body's been found before you start searching the room. The room wasn't tossed, so the killer got what they were after. My money says they were after her, and the people shaking down the room are either accomplices, or unrelated players who saw the brass ring and went for it.

This works for me bigtime, because I love whodunits.