QUIZ BOOK

Mystery of the Hanging Man

“If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an

impersonal thing — a thing beyond myself. Crime is
common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic
rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
Sherlock Holmes
 Introduction
Now that you have reached a solution, turn to the Quiz for the appropriate case.
The quiz is divided into two parts. Part One covers the essential questions raised in the
case. Each question has a point value attached to it, which can be found in parentheses
after the answer. Part Two contains bonus questions which may relate to the case or
which may, in some instances, depend upon a general knowledge of the Canon of Holmes
stories. After you have answered the quiz questions, follow these steps:

1. Turn to the Quiz Answers section of this Quiz Book and correct your quiz.

2. Total your point score. The point value for each correctly answered ques-
tion will be found in parenthese after the answer in this Quiz Book.

3. Turn to the Solution Section of this Quiz Book and read Holmes’ analysis
of the appropriate case. After reading Holmes’ narration, you may turn
back to the answer section of this Quiz Book to see the specific clue points
that Holmes used to to solve the case. These points are listed at the beginning
of the appropriate answer section.

4. Compare your game turn score with that of Holmes and arrive at a net
game turn score by taking the difference between the two. For example, if
it took Holmes 10 game turns to solve the case and you took 12, then your
net game score would be -2. If, on the other hand, you beat Holmes and
solved the case in 8 turns, then your net game score would be +2.

5. Multiply your net game turn score by 5. The resulting product is used to
adjust your total score. For example, your quiz score is 85 and your net
game turn score is -2; then -10 (5 x -2) combined with 85 gives you a game
total of 75.

Holmes’ score will always equal 100 points. You can try to better your score by answer-
ing the bonus questions in Part Two of the quiz. Your final quiz score will be the total of your
points for both quiz parts adjusted by your net game turn score.

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 “It is one of those instances where the reasoner
can produce an effect which seems remarkable to
his neighbour, because the latter has missed one
little point which is the basis of the deduction.”
Sherlock Holmes

QUIZ SECTION
Quiz: Mystery of the Hanging Man

Part One Part Two

1. What is the full name of the victim?
2. Who murdered him?
3. Why was he murdered?
4. What was the victim’s profession?
5. What task was the victim recruited for?
6. What does the coded message mean?
1. Which other bank was burgled in a simi-
lar way at the end of March?
2. What is the name of the forger who paint-
ed the canvas appraised at Sotheby’s?
3. What is the relationship between this
forger and the famous forger called Har-
old, who was jailed at the Old Bailey 30
years earlier?

4. What is Harold’s brother’s first name?

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ANSWER SECTION

“Is there any other point which I can make clear?”

“You know a conjurer gets no credit when once

he has explained his trick; and if I show you too much
of my method of working, you will come to the con-
clusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.”
Sherlock Holmes

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 Answers: Mystery of the Hanging Man

Sherlock Holmes solved the case in 4 Clue Points. They were Tyburn Tree (96 NW), the
Punch & Judy pub (73 WC), Glenville Marshall’s rooms (39 WC) and Rigby & Co (1 SW). He
also used the articles “Apparent theft” (Times - 14th May) and “Second Hand Sporting Guns”
(Times - 4th July 88), the key to the coded message.

Part One Part Two

1. Glenville Marshall (30) 1. Cox & Co. (10)

2. Moriarty - or rather one of his hench- 2. Perry Usher (15)

men. (5)
3. Uncle and nephew. (10)
3. For having double-crossed Moriarty. He
kept the money from the Holder & Ste- 4. Matthew (5)
venson burglary in order to pay his gam-
bling debts and his rent. (30)

4. Safe designer at Rigby & Co. (10)

5. To open the safes he had designed in the

burgled banks. (15)

6. MEET AT PUNCH 3MAY 5AM

MORIARTY (10)

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 Solution Section

“I am afraid that my exploration may disillusion you, but it

has always been my habit to hide none of my methods, either from
my friend Watson or from anyone who might make an intelligent
interest in them.”
Sherlock Holmes

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 SOLUTION
EXTRA CASE
The Mystery of the Hanging Man

Sherlock Holmes receives us at 221B. “So Wiggins, you’ve solved the

case, quite straight-forward wasn’t it? Hanging the man for all to see, combined
with the coded message, could only mean that the diabolical mind of Moriarty
was at work here.”
“One day I shall have him!” Holmes exclaims emphatically.
“When they told me a man had been hanged in Hyde Park, I immediately
thought of the Tyburn Tree where public executions took place right up until the
last century.”
“Knowing that Moriarty enjoys hiding secrets in plain sight, I soon realised
that the reference to the source document needed to decode the message was
written right there on the first line: The Times, 4th of July, 1st page, 2nd column,
9th article. Then, each group of three numbers represents a single letter from this
document - the first figure is the line number, the second gives the word on that
line and the third pinpoints the letter within that word. Thus decoded, the mes-
sage reads: Meet at Punch 3 May 5am Moriarty..”
“So you went to the Punch & Judy pub?” Wiggins asked.
“Exactly. There I was told that the man was called Marsh and lived in Rus-
sell Square. Now, the only Marsh in the directory didn’t live in that quarter,
however I noted that a man called Glenville Marshall did. I decided to go there
and discovered that it was indeed the correct address, it would appear that the
barman must have misheard the name.”
“Once there, the landlady told me that he had money troubles which I con-
firmed on finding a letter from his bank within his desk. I realised that the root
cause was gambling debts when I saw a matchbook there from the Criterion
Club.”
“A trip to his employer, Rigby & Co., uncovered the key facts that he de-
signed safes for banks and that the Holder & Stevenson Bank which was burgled
yesterday was one of their clients.”
“From that point, the necessary deduction was elementary, my dear Wig-
gins. Moriarty had engaged Glenville Marshall to break into the very safes he
had designed. This time, Marshall kept the proceeds to pay off his gambling
debts and his rent. Since one cannot double-cross Moriarty with impunity, Mar-
shall was executed and displayed as a message to others.”
Once again, Holmes dazzles us with his remarkable capacity for deduc-
tion.