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// Some Notes on the Text 
// Story: Murder Most Equestrian 
// by Tumbleweed 
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As I have mentioned before, the Flash Sentry Papers are an invaluable historical resource. Sentry's perspective on major events and personages is often unorthodox, if not contradictory towards the generally accepted accounts, but this alternative view is essential to a thorough understanding of history, and the separation of truth from myth.

	This said, Sentry's candid accounts of everyday life are just as valuable than his adventures, if not moreso. Though this presents something of a problem in that Sentry's everyday life often was an adventure, much to his chagrin. Still, it is with this in mind that I have focused on this particular volume of the Flash Sentry Papers for my next publication. In particular, I found Flash's insights into the popular entertainment of the day fascinating. To go by the popular conception of history, the only entertainments available to our ancestors were ramshackle Hearth's Warming Eve pageants, and large overproduced pop-music concert. Suffice it to say, this couldn't be farther from the truth.

	Despite Sentry's characteristic inattention to exact dates, further research has allowed me to place this adventure some several months after his trip to Spitespire with Princess Twilight Sparkle (see: Octavia's Eleven). Based on the fragmentary records I've been able to uncover, Flash Sentry took a several-month sabbatical from the Royal Guard shortly after his return to Canterlot, in which the events of this volume take place. Sentry would be called back into service before long, but that is a matter for another volume entirely. 

	Per the usual, I have provided footnotes for further clarification where necessary. 

	-G.M.F.

	P.S. I should also note that the smaller scope of this volume of the Flash Sentry Papers is an entirely academic choice, and has nothing to do with any so-called controversy arising from the subject of the last installment.