Step Three B1.
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READING & TRAINING
Classic Detective Stories
KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES
THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
Part One
Page 6 – activity 1
A luggage B keyhole C lid
D draughts E flap F pips
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1 He fought for the Confederacy,
i.e., the South.
2 Pieces of luggage and boxes of
papers.
3 Pondicherry, a city in India.
4 Five orange pips.
5 Death – his death.
6 ‘KKK’.
7 Papers.
8 ‘KKK’.
9 His brother, John’s father.
10 At the edge of a pond in the
garden.
11 He had committed suicide.
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1D 2 D 3B 4A 5A 6C
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letter: envelope, stamp, postmark
family: grandfather, sons, uncle,
father, brother
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens
Clarence Rook
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
AND EXIT TEST
weather: storm, rained, windy
landlady: flat, house
army: colonel, gun
dressed: coat, shoes
lawyer: will, inherit
door: keys, knocked, keyhole, locked
games: cheat, cards
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Open answers.
Part Two
Page 15 – activity 1
1C 2B 3A 4A 5C 6A 7C 8C
Page 23 – activity 1
1 F – He didn’t call the police
because he was afraid they would
think he was foolish.
2 F – He went to see his friend
about three days later.
3 T
4 F – He had died as a result of an
accident.
5 T
6 F – He lived in the house very
happily until he too received the
five orange pips.
7 T
8 T
K E Y T O T
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1B 2F 3D 4G 5A 6E 7C
Page 24 – activity 2B
1 sooner 2 carefully 3 happily
4 danger 5 refused 6 empty
7 quickly
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1 was no mystery
2 he had come
3 went out of / left
4 frightened / scared
5 was nothing
6 speak / say anything
7 nothing
8 contained
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Possible answer:
My dearest Julia!
Something terrible has happened and
I feel that I should explain everything to
you. After all, we are going to be
married soon and you should know
everything about your future husband.
It all began when my Uncle Elias went to
the United States as a young man. He
lived in Florida and there he became a
wealthy man. When the Civil War began
he fought for the South because he did
not want the black slaves to be free.
After the war he returned to Florida and
then he came back to England. This was
some years ago. He was then murdered
after he received an envelope
containing five orange pips. After that,
my father came to live in my uncle’s
house. About a year later he also
received five orange pips and then he
was murdered.
Only yesterday I, too, received a letter
with five orange pips and I was sure
that I would die. Fortunately, a friend of
mine told me about the great Sherlock
Holmes. This man can solve almost any
crime, so now I feel better.
H E A C T I V I T I E S
Do not worry my love! I am sure Holmes
will save me.
Your loving husband-to-be,
John
Part Three
Page 26 – activity 1
1 smoked his pipe
2 America
3 England
4 on a ship
5 papers
6 a person’s initials
7 the sign of an organisation
Page 26 – activity 2
Open answers.
Page 33 – activity 1
1 Where were the letters sent from?
They were sent from Pondicherry,
Dundee and London.
2 Why was there always a delay
between the arrival of the letter
and the death?
Because the letters travelled on a
fast mail boat while the murderers
travelled on a slower sailing ship.
3 What do the letters ‘KKK’ stand
for?
They stand for Ku Klux Klan.
4 When did the ‘KKK’ come into
existence?
It came into existence after the
Civil War.
5 What was the ‘KKK’ against?
It was against black people being
free and having the right to vote.
6 Why did the ‘KKK’ send oak leaves,
melon seeds or orange pips?
They sent these as a warning to
the people they were going to kill if
they did not change their ways.
7 Why did the ‘KKK’ want Uncle
Elias’ diary back?
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Because it contained information
about the organisation’s members.
8 According to the police, how did
John Openshaw die?
He fell into the river by accident.
9 What did Holmes send to Captain
James Calhoun?
Five orange pips.
10 How did Holmes find out about
James Calhoun?
He checked all the ships that had
left from Pondicherry, and
discovered one called the Lone
Star. Only three members of the
crew were American: Captain
Calhoun and two others.
11 Why didn’t the police ever arrest
James Calhoun?
Because his ship sank in a storm
and never reached the United
States.
Page 34 – activity 2
1 any 2 somebody 3 some 4 any
5 any 6 some 7 Somebody
8 anything 9 something 10 anybody
11 something 12 somewhere
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1F 2H 3E 4D 5G 6A 7I 8B
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1 Ku Klux Klan
2 Resemblance to the sound made
when cocking a rifle.
3 Ex-Confederate soldiers.
4 After the American Civil War.
5 For political purposes.
6 To terrorise black voters and to
drive anybody from the country
who did not agree with them.
7 Sending oak leaves, melon seeds or
orange pips as a warning to the
victim to change his ways or leave
the country. Those who did not
change their ways were then killed
in strange and unpredictable ways.
8 The police had very little success in
catching them.
9 Although the ‘KKK’ collapsed in
1869, typical ‘KKK’-style crimes
have been reported since then.
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Open answers.
HUNTED DOWN
Part One
Page 40 – activity 1
1 A
2 B – He likes to study their faces.
3 A
4 B – He has dark hair.
5 B – He speaks only to the clerk.
6 B – Mr Slinkton is very polite.
7 B – Mr Slinkton knows a friend of
Mr Sampson’s.
8 A
9 A
10 B – He met him two weeks later.
Page 46 – activity 1
1 Chief Manager of an insurance
office
2 thirty years
3 studies their faces before
speaking to them
4 his first opinion of people
5 dislikes him
6 to get information for a friend
7 Mr Meltham has left the
insurance profession
8 nieces
9 died
10 to Italy for his nieces’ health
11 one of them died there
12 embarrassed
Page 46 – activity 2 Page 64 – activity 1
1B 2D 3A 4A 5D 6A 7B 8C 1M 2E 3I 4K 5H 6F 7D 8G
9 D 10 C 9 B 10 N
Page 48 – activity 3 Page 65 – activity 2
Open answers. 1 He discovers the truth when he
receives the mysterious visitor.
Part Two No, he doesn’t tell the reader the
truth at that point in the story.
Page 48 – activity 1
2 Mr Meltham.
1C 2B 3A 4B 5B 6B 7C 8A 3 He pretended that he was a drunk
N.B. for teachers: Mr Beckwith is and that he was drinking himself
actually Mr Meltham, although we to death.
haven’t been told this yet!
Page 65 – activity 3
Page 55 – activity 1 Possible answer:
1C 2C 3D 4B 5D 6C To the London Police
Page 56 – activity 2 I wish to reveal all the facts concerning
the murder of Miss Margaret Niner by
1 I think Mr Sampson will be away Mr Julius Slinkton. Mr Slinkton used his
for a week. knowledge of insurance and poison to
2 I’m afraid his insurance payment kill Miss Niner and I am afraid I, too, am
won’t be very high.
going to die because of his poisoning.
3 I expect they won’t arrive on time. It all began five years ago when I first
4 I believe Mr Sampon will go to
met Miss Niner. It was love at first sight
Scarborough.
when I saw her walking with her sister
5 Mr Beckwith’s family will probably
in a London park. I talked to her for a
receive £2,000. long time and she began to tell me
6 Do you think the story will have
about her illness. I had studied
a happy ending? chemistry at university so I understood
7 I’m certain you won’t like that she was being poisoned. When she
Mr Slinkton. told me that her uncle knew all about
8 He won’t be able to help you I’m the insurance business too, I was
afraid. certain that he was killing her.
Page 56 – activity 3 Unfortunately, her uncle took her to
Open answer. Italy – for her health he said – and she
died there. When I heard the news of
Part Three her death I swore that I would hunt her
uncle down!
Page 57 – activity 1 I had a great idea. I pretended to be a
1A 2B 3B young man named Mr Beckwith who
drank too much and who wished to take
Page 57 – activity 2 out a life insurance policy. Mr Slinkton
Open answers. immediately helped me to get the policy
and he began to prepare my brandy for

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me, adding a bit of poison each day. English Detective Fiction Page 83 – activity 4 8 Will Stevens was shot by Mathurin.
I also contacted Mr Sampson, the Page 69 – activity 1 1 Mathurin’s criminal career was Page 83 – activity 5
manager of an insurance office. He and ended by Nora Van Snoop.
1 Edgar Allan Poe. By the application Open answer.
his servant helped me to trick 2 Mathurin’s real identity was
of logic.
Mr Slinkton. When Mr Slinkton and his known by only two people.
niece were in Scarborough, I disguised
2 He uses both logic and scientific
3 The bill and a sheet of paper were
THE ORACLE OF THE DOG
observation.
myself as an old invalid, and became
friends with her. In this way we warned
3 Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. brought to the table by the waiter. Part One
Hercule Poirot relies on his 4 The note accusing Mathurin was
her of her danger and Mr Sampson’s written by Nora. Page 86 – activity 1
intelligence like Dupin and Holmes,
servant took her away to safety. Once 5 Miss Van Snoop was accused of A shears B hedge C terrace
while Miss Marple relies on her
she was safe, Mr Sampson came to my stealing the cigarette case by the D summerhouse E ladder F tie-pin
intuitive understanding of human
office at Middle Temple to accuse porter.
nature. Page 87 – activity 2
Mr Slinkton. Unfortunately, when 6 During the ride to the police
4 They described the life of the
Mr Slinkton saw that we had discovered station Miss Van Snoop was 1 dogs 2 man 3 smiled 4 wonderful
wealthy and leisured upper middle
his horrible plan, he took some poison watched by the policeman. 5 reply 6 lying 7 excitedly 8 case
classes. They did not describe the
and died. 7 Mathurin was arrested by the 9 pocket 10 it
lower classes or the social
This then is my story. inspector.
problems of the day.
Page 66 – activity 4 1 5 They wrote about all aspects of
P British society in more realistic
terms. Page 93 – activity 1
2 E Date of crime: 4th April 1904
2 B L O O D
THE STIR OUTSIDE Location: Cranston, Yorkshire.
R P Name of victim: Colonel Druce
A L
THE CAFÉ ROYAL Activity at moment of death: The Colonel was sitting in his summerhouse.
3 U N 4 Page 72 – activity 1 Important features of clothing or appearance: He was wearing a white linen
C L E
1C 2A 3A 4B 5C 6B suit.
6 D H
WITNESSES
5 D I R T Y 8 A Page 81 – activity 1 Name Position at time of crime What he/she saw
F N 10 7 D R U N K 1 M, F 2 P, D 3 N, B 4 N, A 5 N, H Patrick Floyd On a ladder in the garden No one entered the summerhouse
9 P O I S O N I D 6 M, G 7 N, E Janet Druce Sitting on the terrace No one entered the summerhouse
R I I 11 S I C K Page 81 – activity 2 Donald Druce Looking out of his bedroom He saw Janet Druce and Patrick
E D E L E window Floyd
1 She saw him when he shot her
12 W H boyfriend. Weapon: Unknown
E E L C H A I R R
2 They could not search a lady in the Wounds: Stab wound in back
E E 13 K C Last person seen with victim: Mr Aubrey Traill, the Colonel’s solicitor.
restaurant and they had to have a
A 13 B E A C H How body was found: Janet Druce entered the summerhouse and found him.
policewoman search her.
14 D R U N K A R D I 3 She wanted to arrest Mathurin POSSIBLE SUSPECTS/OTHER PEOPLE IN THE AREA AT TIME OF CRIME
O E herself. Name Relation to victim Job
U F 4 She had arrested Mathurin. Dr Valentine His daughter’s fiancé Doctor
G Aubrey Traill His solicitor Solicitor
Page 82 – activity 3 Herbert Druce His nephew Army officer
H A 1D 2E 3F 4B 5G 6A 7C Harry Druce His nephew Army officer
T B A rubbish B ballpoint pen
C candy D petrol E mobile
F chips G sneakers H purse

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Page 94 – activity 2
1 I was working on a ladder in the
garden.
2 I was sitting on the terrace.
3 I was looking out of my bedroom
window.
4 I was out walking with Fiennes and
Herbert.
5 I was out walking with Herbert and
Harry Druce.
Page 94 – activity 3
1 Harry was telling… when Janet
screamed.
2 I entered… I saw… She was…
screaming… Colonel Druce was
lying…
3 Last night somebody rang… while I
was reading…
4 Fiennes walked… Father Brown
was standing… he was thinking
about…
5 When the solicitor arrived, Donald
Druce was sleeping.
6 We were talking… I looked down
and saw…
7 As we were walking… we passed…
Page 95 – activity 4
1 any 2 that 3 and 4 also 5 many
6 both 7 But 8 Even 9 than
10 many 11 However 12 This 13 No
14 much 15 but 16 how 17 but
Part Two
Page 96 – activity 1
1C 2C 3D 4B 5B 6C 7A 8D
9 C 10 A
Page 102 – activity 1
1 It was two rocks, one balanced on
top of the other.
2 No, they weren’t.
3 They were throwing sticks into the
water for him to fetch.
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4 When Colonel Druce was
murdered.
5 Just after Nox began to howl.
6 She had found her father’s body.
7 He ran away.
8 Fiennes.
9 Because he said that the dog
knew who had killed his master.
10 With his tie-pin.
11 Because he was angry with his son.
Page 102 – activity 2
1 stabbed Colonel Druce
2 has only one
3 see anyone enter
4 you like some
5 agree with you
6 is really dangerous
7 the money instead
Page 103 – activity 3A
Possible answers:
1 Traill could be the murderer
because Nox barked at him and
then he ran away.
2 The tie-pin could be the murder
weapon because the police haven’t
found the actual murder weapon
yet, and Traill is a suspect.
3 Janet Druce can’t be the murderer
because she was on the terrace at
the time of the murder.
4 Dr Valentine’s medical bag could
contain the murder weapon
because doctors always carry
sharp instruments with them.
5 Dr Valentine could be the
murderer because he is going to
marry Janet and Janet is going to
inherit her father’s money now.
6 Herbert Druce can’t be the
murderer because he was walking
with Fiennes at the time of the
murder.
7 Harry Druce can’t be the murderer
because he was walking with
K E Y T O T
Fiennes at the time of the murder.
8 Floyd can’t be the murderer because
he was working on a ladder in the
garden at the time of the murder.
Wrong interpretation
The tie-pin could have been the
murder weapon.
He returned to the shore at that
moment because he sensed that his
master had been murdered.
The dog knew that he had been
murdered and that is why he began
to howl.
Nox knew that he was the murderer
and Traill ran away because the dog
had discovered him.
Page 114 – activity 2
Because witnesses were certain that
nobody entered the summerhouse
when the Colonel was killed and no
murder weapon was found.
H E A C T I V I T I E S
Part Three
Page 104 – activity 1
1B 2C 3A 4B 5B 6C
Page 113 – activity 1
Final interpretation
Harry Druce stabbed the Colonel
with a long swordstick from outside
the summerhouse.
He did this so that Fiennes and
Herbert would walk further along
and he would have time to stab the
Colonel.
It provided a good target for Harry
Druce.
Harry Druce had used his swordstick,
which he then threw in the water.
He was simply a nervous man.
He returned because he couldn’t find
the walking stick.
It was in his nature to take risks. So
he risked killing his uncle for his
money, even if he wasn’t sure that
he would inherit it.
The dog howled because he couldn’t
find the walking stick.
Nox barked at him because he was a
nervous man and dogs don’t like
nervous people.
Page 114 – activity 3
He understood that Harry was a
person who liked taking big risks. It
was a big risk to murder his uncle
since he was not even sure that he
would inherit his money.
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He could begin to think correctly about Nox’s actions because he knew that a dog
could not mysteriously sense a murder. He also knew that dogs do not like
nervous people and that would have been enough reason for its barking at Traill.
Page 114 – activities 4-5
Open answers.
Page 115 – activity 6
The present Duke of Exmoor is the lawyer, Mr Green.
The reason he has always worn a purple wig is that he has a triangular cut on
his bald head!
1 N E W S P A P E R
2 M O N E Y
3 W I T N E S S
4 S U M M E R H O U S E
5 I N V I S I B L E
6 W O U N D
7 G A M B L E R
8 S T A B
9 T R A I L L
10 T E R R A C E
11 P O L I C E
12 W E A P O N S
13 N O X
14 G R O W L S
15 A C C U S E
16 B L O O D
17 B A C K W A R D S
18 M U R D E R
19 P S Y C H O L O G Y
20 M O N T E C A R L O
21 L A D D E R
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The Five Orange Pips C They were somehow connected with the ‘KKK’.
1 Choose the correct answer – A, B, C or D.
D They were all connected with the American Civil War.
6 Why didn’t Mr Openshaw give the ‘KKK’ their papers?
1 Before Mr Openshaw even entered the room, Holmes knew that he
A Because Holmes told him not to.
had a very serious and urgent problem. How?
B Because he couldn’t find them.
A He had read about him in the newspaper.
C Because his uncle had already burned them.
B He could tell by how Mr Openshaw knocked on the door.
D Because they were too important to give away.
C He had received a letter from him earlier in the day.
D Only someone with a bad problem would have come out on such 7 How did Holmes deduce that the murderers travelled by ship?
a windy and rainy day. A The postmarks on all the letters showed that they were sent
from ports.
2 Before Mr Openshaw even told him, Holmes knew that he had just
come from Horsham. How? B The ‘KKK’ is an American organisation so they must have come
to England on a ship.
A He could tell from the distinctive dirt on his shoes.
C Oranges, and therefore orange pips, always come to England on
B He could tell from his distinctive accent.
boats.
C Mr Openshaw was carrying a Horsham newspaper.
D The ‘KKK’ is a naval organisation.
D Mr Openshaw had written to him saying that he was coming
from Horsham. 8 How does Holmes interpret the diary entry: ‘Visited Paramore. All
Well.’?
3 Why did Mr Openshaw’s uncle become a member of the ‘KKK’?
A That Paramore escaped from the ‘KKK’.
A Because he had fought for the South during the Civil War and he
B That Paramore was murdered after receiving the five orange
didn’t want blacks to have the vote.
pips as a warning.
B Because he was afraid they would kill him if he didn’t become a
C That Paramore decided to join the ‘KKK’ after receiving the five
member.
orange pips as a warning.
C Because Captain Calhoun asked him to join.
D That Paramore had been sick but now he is better.
D Because he was a strange man and he liked drinking brandy.
9 How did Holmes find Captain Calhoun?
4 How did Mr Openshaw become the owner of his uncle’s house?
A He read old newspapers.
A His uncle left him the house in his will.
B He studied samples of dirt from Horsham.
B His uncle gave it to him because he was very fond of him.
C He went to Dundee.
C His uncle left it to his brother, Mr Openshaw’s father, and then
D He went to the port of London.
his father left it to him.
D He, too, was a member of the ‘KKK’. 10 Who or what defeated Holmes in this case?
A The ‘KKK’.
5 How did the police interpret the deaths of Mr Openshaw, his father
and his uncle? B Captain Calhoun.
C The Confederacy.
A They were somehow connected with the five orange pips.
D The weather.
B They were either suicides or accidents.

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Hunted Down
2 Answer the following questions.
1 How did Mr Slinkton appear to Mr Sampson when he first saw him?
2 What was Mr Slinkton’s profession?
3 What made Mr Sampson so curious about Mr Slinkton?
4 According to Mr Slinkton, why did Mr Meltham leave the insurance
profession?
5 Why did Mr Slinkton lie about this?
6 Who was Mr Beckwith?
7 Why did Mr Sampson lie to the readers?
8 Who was the ‘shadow’?
9 Who took Miss Niner away from her uncle?
10 Why did Mr Meltham pretend to drink brandy all the time?
The Stir Outside the Café Royal
3 Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), and then
correct the false ones.
T F
1 Miss Van Snoop herself gave the narrator information
about the events described in the story.
2 Miss Van Snoop really wanted the cab to go slowly because
she wanted to keep an eye on Mathurin’s cab.
3 The cab driver knew that Miss Van Snoop was American
because she was very generous.
4 The men standing in front of the Café Royal assumed that
Miss Van Snoop was American because she was entering
the café alone.
5 The waiter let Miss Van Snoop stay at the table for four
people because she was American.
6 Miss Van Snoop denied that she had taken Mathurin’s
cigarette case because she wanted the police to take
them to the police station.
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7 Miss Van Snoop knew that Mathurin had killed the bank
manager in Detroit because she was a detective.
8 Miss Van Snoop didn’t ask the London police for help
earlier because she didn’t think they would believe her story.
9 Miss Van Snoop went on to catch many more dangerous
criminals.
The Oracle of the Dog
4 Choose the correct answer – A, B, C or D.
1 What does Father Brown mean when he says he doesn’t like it when
people spell ‘dogs’ backwards?
A He doesn’t like people who can’t spell correctly.
B He doesn’t like it when people attribute special powers to dogs.
C He doesn’t like it when people give dogs funny names.
D He doesn’t like it when people give more importance to dogs
than to their friends.
2 What were the two big mysteries surrounding the murder of Colonel
Druce?
A Why anyone would kill such a nice old man and how the
murderer escaped.
B Where Colonel Druce was killed and how.
C How the murder was actually committed and what happened to
the murder weapon.
D Who the murderer was and why he wanted to kill Colonel Druce.
3 What did all the witnesses say about the murder?
A That no one entered the summerhouse at the time of the
murder.
B That it was truly horrible.
C That nobody came out of the summerhouse before the murder.
D That Janet Druce entered the summerhouse with a gun.
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4 Why did Father Brown call Fiennes a fool?
A Because Fiennes didn’t know who the murderer was and Father
Brown did.
B Because Fiennes thought that Traill was the murderer.
C Because Fiennes thought that Nox knew that Traill was the
murderer.
D Because Fiennes didn’t think that Traill was the murderer and
Father Brown did.
5 Why did Traill visit Colonel Druce on the day of the murder?
A Because the Colonel wished to change his will.
B Because Traill wanted to murder him.
C Because Janet Druce had asked him to come.
D Because Donald Druce was in trouble.
6 Why was Dr Valentine a good suspect?
A Because Nox growled at him.
B Because he was going to marry Janet Druce, who was going to
inherit all of the Colonel’s money.
C Because he was visiting the Colonel on the day of the murder.
D Because a doctor knows how to kill people.
The Five Orange Pips
Activity 1
1 D 2 A 3 A 4 C 5 B 6 C 7 A 8 B 9 A 10 D
Hunted Down
Activity 2
1 He appeared to be a polite, well-dressed gentleman of about forty years of
age.
2 He was a lawyer.
3 The fact that even though he had a bad first impression of the man – and
Mr Sampson always trusted his first impressions – Mr Slinkton seemed
genuinely sad about Mr Meltham.
4 Mr Meltham left the profession because he had love problems.
5 Because Mr Meltham left the insurance profession after the woman he loved
had been killed, and Mr Slinkton was the one who had killed her.
6 Mr Beckwith was actually Mr Meltham.
7 Because he wanted to keep the story interesting until the end.
8 Mr Meltham, who pretended to be an old man so that he could protect Miss
Niner from her uncle.
9 A servant of Mr Sampson’s.
10 He knew that Mr Slinkton chose people who were sick in some way as his
victims, so that when he poisoned them nobody would suspect it was
murder. He would then receive the money from their insurance policy.

7 Why did Harry Druce kill himself? The Stir Outside the Café Royal
A Because Father Brown had discovered that he was the Activity 3
murderer. 1 T
B Because he felt guilty about having killed Colonel Druce. 2 T
3 F – He knew she was American because of her accent.
C Because he discovered that the Colonel had left his money to
4 T
Janet and not to him. 5 F – He let her stay because she gave him some money.
D Because he was afraid Nox would bark at him. 6 T
7 F – She knew this because she herself had witnessed the murder of her
8 Why did Harry Druce want Colonel Druce’s money so desperately?
boyfriend.
A Because he wanted to return to India. 8 F – She didn’t call them earlier because she wanted to arrest Mathurin
B Because he wanted to get married. herself.
9 F – She resigned from the police department immediately after catching
C Because he had lost his job and then all his money at Monte
Mathurin.
Carlo.
D Because he wanted to gamble at Monte Carlo. The Oracle of the Dog
Activity 4
1B 2B 3A 4C 5A 6B 7C 8C

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