it had further information for me.

The
entire alphabet was labelled along one
of the edges, and I quickly realized
that it had more uses than I could
initially surmise. In the centre was an
interesting symbol. It appeared to read
SH – Sherlock Holmes – yet when A B C
spun upside down it read the same
thing. It was quite a unique design,
and one that I knew he had put there
for a reason. Beside the ruler lay a D E F
small map of Cookham. A few names
were noted there; perhaps one of them
would be my final destination?
I still had one further room to
investigate, the central room of the G H I
carriage. I took a deep breath and
turned the handle on the door. It did
not budge. I could only assume that
it was locked, but because of its glass J K L
panel I could see what was inside. A
small wooden train had been set up, its
track running around the floor. I don’t
know how I had missed it before, when
I glanced in, but then again I had only M N O
been checking to see if it was occupied
or not.

“I took a deep P Q R

breath and turned S T U

the handle on
the door.” V W X

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Perhaps as the door was locked, I
was not meant to be able to move the
trains. The way it was set up must
be important. I quickly sketched

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the various objects, and as I did, I
spotted the corner of a sheet of paper
A B C emerging from underneath the door.
I transcribed the information beneath
S1 my sketch and returned to my carriage
to study the results.
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D E F Taking account of all circumstances

surrounding my own capture within
this carriage, and starting with
Holmes’s letter, I had to follow
the clues. And before I arrived in
N2 G H I Cookham, I needed to find the name
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of my destination there.

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Once I had this,

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P Q R I knew I could
proceed.
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HINTS
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V W X Difficult, turn to page 182
Medium, turn to page 186
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Easy, turn to page 192

For solutions, turn to page 200
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