Elementary, my dear watson

Elementary, My Dear Watson

8. A note was found in Mrs Crabtree's handbag. It said: Alec, meet me in the garden at 11 o'clock, Alice.

Case-study Alec Crabtree was found dead at his desk in his study last night. He had been hit on the head with a blunt object. He had been sitting at the desk with his back to the door and was in the middle of writing a letter. He was found by his wife, when she went in to bring him his bedtime cocoa at 11.15 pm but his watch which had been smashed in the struggle, had stopped at 11.05 pm. The suspects are the people who were in the house at the time: Mrs Crabtree (the dead man's wife), Daniel Crabtree (the dead man's brother), Mr and Mrs Fairfax (old freiens of the Crabtrees), and Susie (the maid).

9. Everyone was playing cards until 11 pm except Susie, who was washing-up in the kitchen between 10.30 and 11.15.

10. At 11 pm Mr Crabtree got up and said he had a letter to write. He went into his study.

11. Mrs Crabtree's name is not Alice.

12. Mrs Fairfax went outside at 11 pm, saying she was hot and needed fresh air.

13. In the drawer of the desk was a will. The will left £10,000 to Daniel.

14.The maid heard footsteps in the hall and the study door opening at just after 11.00.

15. Daniel had debts of about £9,000.

16. At about 11.05, the maid heard the front door

17. Daniel and Mr Fairfax started to watch a tv programme after the game of cards finished at11.00. They were watching it at 11.05 when Alice Fairfax came in and joined them.

18. Alec Crabtree had been writing a letter. It began: Dear Anne, I don't know how to tell you this, but I am leaving you. Alice and I....

1. A silver vase was missing from the room.

2. The window was open.

19. At about 11.10, the maid heard the front door opening again. This time it was Mrs Crabtree, who came into the kitchen and started to make cocoa for herself and her husband.

3. A cigarette-end was found by the body.

4. Everybody smokes except Mr Crabtree and the maid.

5. A piece of red material was found on the window.

6. The silver vase (badly dented) was found in a flowerbed.

20. Mrs Crabtree's name is Anne.

7. Mrs Crabtree, Mrs Fairfax, and Daniel were all wearing red.