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PART 1
FIND THE MURDER WEAPON IN THE BOARDROOM.
Find the 12 different possible murder weapons in the boardroom marked with forensic signs. These are the walking stick, paperweight, train, telephone horn, poke, candle, ashtray, glass, telephone, lamp on the table, box and the lamp on the fireplace.
You have the letter from the murderer with bloodstains. And you can find a handwritten note from Theodore Jones scrawled while he took his last breath, next to his body: “and now there is red on it”. So you know you have to check all murder weapons for the presence of blood. You can find something that looks like blood on the walking stick, paperweight, poke, candles and lamp on the table.
You have the note, your colleagues made on the back of the railway map while investigating the room. It describes the impressions from the murder scene and tells you that there are burn marks on the body and one big head wound. So the murder weapon has something to do with heat. This can only be: one of the two lamps, the poke or one of the two candles. Because the candle on the ground has the same drops of tallow as the candle on the fireplace, this cannot be the murder weapon. Neither of the lamps can be the murder weapons because they would be broken if used as such.
55 min – HINT 1
The killer’s letter, the note with the description of the body and the piece of paper next to his hand, refer to the murder weapon.
50 min – HINT 2
Not all that’s red is blood. What caused the black smudge on his face? The complete code is on the sign.
Only the poke has real blood on it. And the red spots on the poke are of the same color as the red on the warning note. The text on the forensics sign beside the poke is: EB5-‣.
You have found the code. You can find these letters, number and
arrow on the keys.
Code 1: EB
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PART 2
FIND THE MOTIVE AND THE ‘TRACK’ OF THE MURDERER.
Examine the boardroom very carefully in order to find out what the motive of the murderer could be and the ‘track’ he followed. Is it the track on the railway map, the track in the boardroom, the track on the railway bridge and yard and/or the track of blood traces on the mirror?
Find the threads in a routing on the carpet and floor. These threads are shaped like letters. And these form a word: FERROSOLL - an iron compound C10H10Fe that you can find amongst the chemical formulas on the Iron Compound sheet. If you count the atoms like the example given on the Iron Compound sheet, there are 21 atoms. 10xC + 10xH + 1xFe = 21 atoms. On the back of the Iron Compound sheet it is written that you should multiply the number of atoms by 50 to get the price of rail. That is 21 x 50 = 1,050 pounds/mile. This can be filled in on the order.
45 min – HINT 3
Read the 9 threads on the floor to find the iron compound.
Use the legend to measure the length of the ordered rails on the railway map with the string. That is from London to a city with the letters AM in its name. None of the other cities on the map tally with the order. It has to be Nottingham, because it is 100 miles from London and only this answer gives a subtotal with 4 zeroes. Multiply the distance by 2 because a railway track consists of two rails which you can find on a note on the floor “1 track = 2 rails”. That is 100 x 2 = 200 miles. Fill this in on the order. The subtotal is 200 x 1,050 = 210,000 pounds. The order total is 210,000 + 800,000 = 1,010,000 pounds.
40 min – HINT 4
Use the string to measure the distance from Nottingham to London. Don’t forget the note by the chair.
Look along the railway yard in the direction of the number 1 and on the left side you can see two stretched numbers 6:3. If you solve the sum 6:3=? you will find the number 2. The number 1 means the first place in the code. So the first number is 2.
30 min – HINT 5
Look at the railway yard from another perspective to find 2 numbers. - / - = ?.
Place the mirror card exactly on the mirror in the room. You will cover a piece of the text. If you read the visible words you find “The first number of the order total is the last number you need”. That refers to the total of the order. The first number of the total of the order is 1, so the last number of the code should be 1.
The construction drawing of the railway bridge shows a word in Morse code in the rivets. If you translate the Morse code on the Chrono Decoder you will find the motive: REVENGE. The second pillar with the number 5 is pointing to the motive. So number 5 is the second number of the code.
20 min – HINT 6
Place the mirror in the frame of the mirror. Which number on the bridge points to the motive?
In the logbook of the telephone exchange you find the initials of the people that spoke to eachother. Reconstruct these telephone connections by drawing a straight line from initials to initials. Only one number will be left. That is number 3 in unit 3. So you know the 3rd number of the code is 3.
Code 2: 2531
