Hints & Solutions – Pages 100 to 123

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100-101 – Staff Records

Can you work out which employee number belongs to which member of staff?

Hint 1

It’s always good to have photographic evidence.

Hint 2

I only recognise some of the staff in the photographs so I reckon you can use the photos to work out when the different staff members began working at the Kensington Museum.

Solution

Sam Cooper = 2404

Earnest Robinson = 0901

Bill Cooper = 9904

Richard November = 0102

Elizabeth Knight = 1101

Mary Hawkins = 2503

Stephen Cartwright = 2201

Harriet Wheeler = 1302

102-103 – Telephone Log Book

Can you work out which employee number belongs to which member of staff?

Hint 1

I couldn’t get through all those books!

Hint 2

I might be going off beam ’ere but those markings remind me of somethin’.

Solution

104-105 – Telephone Switchboard

Can you use the switchboard to work out which 3-digit telephone extension number belongs to which member of staff?

Hint 1

Oh yeah, this is your classic, manual operated, party-line telecommunication switchboard. Match up the input and output plugboards and follow the cables and you’ll find what you’re lookin’ for.

Hint 2

Oh and make sure you note down the pattern of the telephone extension numbers.

Solution

Bill Cooper = 220

Harriet Wheeler = 102

Earnest Robinson = 312

Elizabeth Knight = 300

Richard November = 116

Stephen Cartwright = 428

Mary Hawkins = 508

Sam Cooper = 322

106-107 – Museum Staff

Can you work out the heights of all the museum staff?

Hint 1

Always carefully observe your surroundings to ascertain as much information as you can.

Hint 2

Well, I’m 5ft 9 and I’m exactly 2 inches shorter than the caretaker.

Solution

Stephen Cartwright = 5ft 9in

Bill Cooper = 5ft 11in

Sam Cooper = 6ft 2in

Mary Hawkins = 5ft 10in

Elizabeth Knight = 5ft 6in

Richard November = 5ft 10in

Earnest Robinson = 6ft

Harriet Wheeler = 4ft 8in

108-109 – Denouement

Using all the information you’ve discovered so far can you eliminate 7 of the 8 suspects and work out who stole the Tiger’s Eye?

Hint 1

Lookin’ at all the evidence collected this evening from the establishment where the crime took place I can safely say the physical evidence – the footprint and the partial fingerprint – rules out two suspects and two more clearly have alibis.

Hint 2

One of the suspects is physically incapable of committing this crime and therefore can be eliminated, another can be ruled out by reliable Eyewitness testimony. Another did not have the means to access the scene of the crime in the way we know the perpetrator did. That leaves only one suspect with means and motive.

Solution

Mary Hawkins

120-121 – The Chase

In which room in the museum is Mary Hawkins hiding?

Hint 1

None of my Junior Constables saw any sign of the perpetrator so they couldn’t have entered any of the rooms they were stationed in.

Hint 2

I seem to remember the perpetrator was afraid of something.

Solution

The Hall of Antiquities

123 – Locked Sarcophagus

Can you work out the 8 digit code and unlock the sarcophagus?

Hint 1

I happen to recall some information on display in a staircase of the spiral variety that might be advantageous to the individual assigned to crack this particularly tricky lock.

Hint 2

On four occasions throughout this investigation I’ve had a funny feelin’ that something’s been missing. In fact… I initially noticed it when you were looking at those hieroglyphics on the stone slabs.

Solution

2 8 4 1 6 4 9 1

The hieroglyphics here have nothing to do with the password.

As you know from the safety notices on the spiral staircase (pages 88-89) to open the sarcophagus you must use the four missing numbers. The four missing numbers referred to are pages numbers. Throughout the book page numbers are missing from the footer on pages 28, 41, 64 and 91. Put those page numbers in chronological order to give you the code that opens the sarcophagus.

Hints & Solutions – Pages 100 to 123

100-101 – Staff Records

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Solution

102-103 – Telephone Log Book

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Solution

104-105 – Telephone Switchboard

Hint 1

Hint 2

Solution

106-107 – Museum Staff

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Solution

108-109 – Denouement

Hint 1

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Solution

120-121 – The Chase

Hint 1

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Solution

123 – Locked Sarcophagus

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