THE CURATOR OF ANTIQUITIES (Pages 60–61)
Using the clues in her study can you work out Harriet Wheeler’s date of birth? 24th November 1882 The quote on the paper can be decoded to connect the 4 animals with a single-digit number. There aren’t any numbers in the quotation but if you say the quote out loud it sounds like there are… […]
THE TOUR GUIDE (Pages 56–57)
Can you mark the 8 staff members’ offices onto the Museum Floorplan in the right places? You know the Deputy Director’s Office is on the east side of the building and opposite the Director’s Office. This must mean the Deputy Director’s Office is the private office at the top of the diagram to the right […]
KEY CUPBOARD (Pages 52–53)
Can you work out which bunch of keys belongs to which suspect? At first it seems that the keys on ‘Hook C’ belong to Mary Hawkins as the key tag appears to read “M. H.”. However this cannot be the case as we know she and Richard have 10 keys between them and Richard always […]
THE CURATOR OF SCIENCE (Pages 46–49)
Can you correctly identify all the fingerprints on file? 0901 = Loop 9904 = Whorl 2404 = Whorl 1302 = Loop 1101 = Arch 2503 = Whorl 2201 = Loop 0102 = Whorl All the fingerprints can be correctly identified by following the 3 golden rules set out in the fingerprint guide: • Arches have […]
THE SECRET LETTER (Pages 38–39)
Can you decipher the secret message? “Greetings Stone Eagle. Your application to The Kensington Mystic Society has been accepted. See you at the first meeting. Regards, Glass Falcon” The Secret Letter is encoded with a spelling cipher. All you have to do to solve it is read through the letter and circle or copy down […]
PIGEON HOLES (Pages 36–37)
Bearing in mind what you already know, can you work out which job each of the suspects does at the museum? Sir Stephen Cartwright = Chairman Bill Cooper = Caretaker Sam Cooper = Tour Guide Mary Hawkins = Head of Public Relations Dr. Elizabeth Knight = Museum Director Prof. Richard November = Curator of Sciences […]
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHS (Pages 34–35)
From looking at the photographs and bearing in mind what you already know, can you match all the suspects’ names to their photographs on the suspect sheets? SUSPECT A =Richard November SUSPECT B =Sam Cooper SUSPECT C =Earnest Robinson SUSPECT D =Mary Hawkins SUSPECT E =Harriet Wheeler SUSPECT F =Bill Cooper SUSPECT G =Elizabeth Knight […]
DEPUTY DIRECTOR (Pages 32–33)
Can you work out which name on the list belongs to the Museum Deputy Director? Earnest Robinson The clue is in the display cabinet in the corner of the room.The names of the 4 items on display each sound like a part of the Deputy Director’s name. URN. NEST. ROBIN. SUN. This type of visual […]
HIEROGLYPHICS (Pages 28–29)
Can you use the stone slabs to decipher the hieroglyphic alphabet? The carvings on both stones say the same thing. The quotation when written in English uses every letter of the English alphabet (except for J) and therefore the two stones can be used together to translate the hieroglyphics as shown below. Back to Hints…
FOOTPRINT (Page 27)
Which 3 shoe sizes might belong to the thief? Sizes 7, 8 and 9 Looking at the wooden ruler next to the footprint you can work out that the footprint is 11 1⁄3 inches long. From looking at the list of measurements you can tell the only 3 shoe sizes that measurement corresponds with are […]
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