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- The Case of the Last Alibi by Mycroft RBBS
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- 018
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- :CASE
- Just after breakfast you are summoned to Hillerys home back behind
- her boutique. 'Ah Mr. Holmes, thank you for comming', she says.
- She then proceeds to tell you that last night she and her sister
- Scarlet had given a party. Although she had had to leave early,
- she understands that the party went on late into the night. This
- morning Hillery returned from Essix to find her sister dead on the
- floor.
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- In the middle of her story, Inspector Lestrade showed up with a
- warrant for the arrest of Hillery. Before she was carted away
- she managed to slip you a piece of paper. It reads as follows:
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- Part List
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- Food: Pate de foie gras
- Roast phesant
- Baked Potatoes
- Strawberry Pie
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- Guests: John VanHorne Rita Coolidge
- Joseph Phillips Robert Hastings
- Mary Cotton Joan Hastings
- John Wright Martha Gilbert
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- After talking to Gregson, you find that the corroner places the
- time of death at between 2 and 3am. He also tells you that things
- look grimm for your client as Lestrade is building quite a case
- and motive.
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- In order to help Hillery you must find out:
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- a) Who is the murderer
- b) What weapon was used
- c) What was the motive
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- The game is afoot!
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- :QUESTION_1
- Who is the murderer?
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- What weapon was used?
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- :QUESTION_3
- What is the motive?
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- :SOLUTION_1
- John Wright
- Mr. Wright
- Mr Wright
- Wright
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- :SOLUTION_2
- Fox Stole
- Stole
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- :SOLUTION_3
- Rejection
- Rejected proposal
- Rejected his proposal
- Rejected love
- Rejected his love
- Would not marry him
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- :STORY
- Alas as the party quieted down, John Wright found himself alone
- with Scarlet. He had for quite some time loved her and had thus
- far never told her. At last he found the courage to ask for her
- hand in marriage.
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- John was depressed to find her answer was no, but when he found
- out that she planned to marry Jeffrey Fitzgerald his best friend
- he became furious. In his rage he grabbed for anything and came
- up with her fox stole that had been draped over a chair. He then
- choaked her with it and fled.
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- Killer : John Wright
- Weapon : Fox Stole
- Motive : Rejection
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- :GALLERY
- Mr. Dennison remembers that John VanHorne and Martha Gilbert
- came into a late showing for a newly aquired art collection.
- They arrived at about 10:30 and stayed for a late cocktail party
- hosted by the Gallery until about 3:00am.
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- :HOTEL
- The night desk clerk, whom you had roused from his sleep,
- remembers that Robert and Joan Hastings had come in just after
- 1:30am and had gone straight up to their room.
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- :BANK
- A teller hands you a receipt. On the back you find the following
- message:
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- Weapon Clue (Part 2 of 2)
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- If he robbed you, he ______ your money.
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- :BOUTIQUE
- You run into the corroner at Hillerys. He tells you that an
- examination of the body showed some strange hairs on Scarlets
- neck.
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- :MERCANTILE
- A notice on the poster board reads:
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- Motive Clue (Part 1 of 2)
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- A manufactured good that fails to work.
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- :EXCHANGE
- Among the scattered papers on the exchange floor, you find a note.
- It reads:
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- Motive Clue (Part 2 of 2)
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- Webster defines it as 'to avoid deliberately'.
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- :CAB
- You find the cabbie that took Hillery out to Essex last night
- around 8:30pm.
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- :NEWSPAPER
- A crumpled piece of paper reveals the following clue:
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- Weapon Clue (Part 1 of 2)
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- Sly as a _________.
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- :PUB
- The bartender from last night remembers that Rita Coolidge and
- Mary Cotton had come in about 1:00am and had met some friends for
- drinks. They had stayed till well after 4:00am. He remembers
- quite well as he had to chase them all out so he could close up
- for the night.
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- :FERRY
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- :SHIPPING
- One of the ships Captains tells you that Joseph Phillips works on
- the freighter Lord Marsly and that he was back at midnight as that
- is about the time the Lord Marsly steamed out of port.
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- :ENDC
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