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- The Case of the Vanishing Silver by Mycroft RBBS
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- 017
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- :CASE
- Along with your midday tea, Mrs. Hudson brings you an envelope
- addressed to you. You open it and discover that it is a letter
- from Sir Garth Gregory, president of the Bank of London. The
- letter reads as follows:
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- To: Mr. Sherlock Holmes
- 221b Baker Street, London
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- Dear Mr. Holmes,
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- Although we have never met, I feel I must seek your help based on
- your reputation. This morning, after arriving at the bank, I
- opened the safe to find a recent shipment of silver bullion had
- dissapeared. The safe shows no signs of breaking into. When
- an Inspector Lestrade from Scotland Yard arrived to investigate,
- he came to the conclusion that I must be guilty and has placed me
- under arrest. I swear to you that I am completely innocent of this
- entire affair. You are my last hope Mr. Holmes. Please help me.
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- Sir Garth Gregory
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- In order to help Mr. Gregoty, you must find out:
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- a) Who is the thief
- b) How was the silver was stolen
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- The game is afoot!
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- :QUESTION_1
- Who is the thief?
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- :QUESTION_2
- How was the silver stolen?
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- :SOLUTION_1
- Mr. Mark Johnson
- Mr Mark Johnson
- Mark Johnson
- Mr. Johnson
- Mr Johnson
- Johnson
- Hotel Janitor
- Janitor
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- :SOLUTION_2
- Melted Silver
- Drain
- Heat
- Chemical
- Chemicals
- Chemical Reaction
- Chemical Heat
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- :STORY
- Mark Johnson, the janitor for the Dartmouth Hotel, had been
- assigned the task of rebuilding a section of the hotels wine
- cellars. While working on this he found out about the silver
- shipment being stored in the vaults of the Bank of England.
- Since he was already part way there, he finished digging into
- the sewers that ran underneath both the bank and the hotel.
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- Next he purchased some chemicals that he knew would create a
- very hot reaction. Sealing the chemicals in wax, he placed them
- in a light wooden box and had them stored in the bank vaults.
- Slowly in the night, the chemicals disolved the wax and eventualy
- met and formed a high temperature reaction. The silver bullion
- melted and went down the water drawin in the center of the vault.
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- Johnson, who had already tapped into that drain pipe, merely
- collected the liquid silver and then skipped the country with it.
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- Thief : Hotel janitor (Mark Johnson)
- Method: Melted silver
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- :GALLERY
- The art director shows you a message that he received just this
- morning. The message reads as follows:
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- Method Clue (Part 2 of 3)
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- This Kennedy won't get to be President.
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- :SCOTLAND
- Gregson lets you see a clue that Lestrade found when he went to
- investigate at the bank. It is a torn piece of cloth with the
- following message on it:
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- Method Clue (Part 1 of 3)
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- TV Alices boss.
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- :LAWYERS
- Mr. Davidsons secretary hands you an envelope saying 'Mr. Holmes,
- this is for you. Mr. Davidson had an appointement and could not
- meet you but he left this for you'.
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- You open it up and it contains a letter that reads:
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- Thief Clue (Part 2 of 3)
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- In the Bible he was known as The Baptist.
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- :HOTEL
- On speaking to the Mr. Peterson, the Hotel Manager, you find he
- can contribute little. 'Well Mr. Holmes', he says, 'I was up
- quite late and did not see anyone at all around the bank. If you
- will excuse me sir, I have my own problems at the moment. My wine
- cellar is half finished, and my janitor quit this morning.'.
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- :BANK
- Examining the vaults, you find that they are indeed quite empty.
- They consist of four metal walls and shiny metal ceiling and floor.
- There is a small drain in the center of the vaults to allow
- drainage when the vaults are cleaned. The vault containing the
- silver is completely empty except for some jade statues.
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- Upon talking to Mark LeFevre, the vice president, you find that
- the only times the vault was opened yesterday was when Mrs. Mary
- Johnstone had some jade statues stored and when Mr. Ted Thompson
- had a box of precious coins sent over from the hotel.
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- :BOUTIQUE
- Hillery tells you that Mary LeFevre, wife of the vice president
- of the bank of England, spends a small fortune at her boutique
- each month.
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- :MERCANTILE
- In the stores records, you find a bill for some highly reactive
- chemicals that were sold to the Dartmout Hotel.
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- 'Yes Mr. Holmes', says the owner, 'the Dartmouth is rebuilding
- their wine cellar and needed the chemicals to burn through some
- of the stone walls'.
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- :PARK
- The old park caretaker can help little except to tell you that he
- was once a city engineer and that the bank, the exchange and the
- hotel are all connected underground by sewers.
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- :EXCHANGE
- No luck here. Mr. Alex Johns the head of the exchange is too
- busy to talk to you.
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- :CAB
- One of the cabbies remembers taking Ted Thompson and a nice
- looking lady from the West Landings Inn to the Dartmouth Hotel
- last night at about 1:00am. He could not help but overhear Mr.
- Thompson bragging to the lady that he was just about to come into
- a large sum of money. The cabbie complains that if he was going to
- be so bloody rich then how come he only got a two-bit tip.
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- :NEWSPAPER
- The editor shows you a letter that the newspaper had just received.
- It reads:
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- Method Clue (Part 3 of 3)
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- Its symbol on the Periodic Table is Ag.
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- :PUB
- One of the barmaids hands you a secret note. It reads:
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- Thief Clue (Part 1 of 3)
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- German money during the time of Sherlock Holmes.
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- :FERRY
- The ticketmaster remembers that Mark LeFevre rode across the ferry
- just last night at around 11:30pm.
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- :SHIPPING
- A shipping clerk accidentaly drops a folded peice of paper. You
- pick it up and open it. It reads:
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- Thief Clue (Part 3 of 3)
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- It makes our day nice and bright.
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