On the night of Mr. Melvyn's murder, Maude had just come off the phone with her secret love, Sir Jasper Ippenstitch III. She was all exhausted from talking for so long to the man she secretly loved.    As she sat down to catch her breath, she was surprised to see that on the news they had a feature about the pop-legend Elton John being seen downtown before the fight. She was, after all, one of the only women who had ever slept with Elton John.