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1. (CRYPTIC) The victim was the Mayor's daughter, Terri Alderman. I won't describe the scene suffice to say it wasn't pretty. There was a message scrawled in chalk alongside the body. It was pure cryptic and I assumed it was from the perpetrator.
"A pugilist is wrong in the midst of an Afrikaner."
2. (HIDDEN WORD) Pugilist! Oh, the sick puppy, she's not even cold yet and he wants me to put a lid on her. Pugilist, what the heck does he mean by that? A slugger, a knock out, I needed a drink, instead I punched the wall in frustration and hurt my fist... my fist! I looked at Terri's body again and noticed her right hand was clenched. I prised her fingers open and found a note. Amidst the blood stains I found a hidden word clue.
"(Think logically Samuels) A crisp, adequately shaped, can be a shovel."
3. (FRACTURED WORD) Back at the office I start to toy with a drink and the word "crisp" in the note. What the heck did that mean? Was it a potato chip shaped like a shovel? Suddenly I realised I had to dig deeper. I went back to the note and, covered by blood, in the bottom right hand corner were two words "GAR" and "JET". I put one and one together and figured I had me a fractured word clue.
But I wondered "what sort of device is a GAR-JET"?
4. (MISSING VOWELS) I was getting the inkling of an idea as to what the gadget was that I was looking for when the phone starts ringing and interrupts my train of thought. A mechanical voice announces;
"You're going around in rings detective, listen closely, something is missing. Nail this and you might nail him." Then the voice spat out the following letters, the vowels were missing - HMMR.
5. (ANAGRAM) "Nail this!" My mind was racing... talon, claw, spike, brad... brad, I'd seen that somewhere... Brad Sharpe! Brad Sharpe is an up and coming politician and I had spotted his name in Terri's mobile phone directory. It's at this point that my secretary interrupts "Note for ya Herbie". "Thanks Peggy" I said "and don't call me Herbie"!
I opened the note to find an anagram clue; "Humility, Detective Samuels, it's not you it's me and look, I'm all mixed up". It was signed STY DEMO. At least I knew where this was heading, the letters formed one word.
6. (BEFORE & AFTER) Modesty and her sister, Liza Humble, ran a high class gentleman's club, The Crowning Glory, on the east side of town. My enquiries here ran, like all my others, to nothing. It was two years down the track. Brad Sharpe had won his election, some were whispering "future president", Terri Alderman was still dead and I hit the bottle like there were no tomorrow. Beyond the fact that my boy was high school I had nothing. That's when I got the Valentine's Day card with the following before and after clue;
"Watch out loopy, I bite
Something on my left wing
Something on my right
What's missing from this ring"
Big Bad _______ in sheep's clothing
7. (WORDS IN COMMON) Lupus "The Grey" Remington, he's a power broker but what's his connection here? Why a Valentine's Day card? Why me and who the heck is sending me these clues? As if on cue another letter arrived for me. This one was perfumed. I recognised the scent but couldn't quite put a name to it... "Midnight Monarch" perhaps.
The note simply said "What do these three words have in common; Virgin, Bee, African?"
8. (BACK WORDS) This wasn't making any sense at all. Was Lupus Remington gay? Why is Brad Sharpe's number in Terri's phone? How does Modesty Humble fit into all this? For the next five years I banged head against the wall and my wallet against a tavern. Stumbling out of a bar one night I was grabbed from behind, shoved up against a wall and rough words grated in my ear. Then everything went black. When I came to I had enough sense to write the words down. It proved to be a back-words clue;
"A stoneworker! Samuels, it's a stoneworker. You recall, no, Sam!"
9. (REBUS) "NOOoooooo!" I screamed. None of my suspects were stoneworkers, bricklayers or concreters. Heck, they weren't even sculptors. I stumbled back to the office. Peggy didn't bat an eyelid at my appearance and simply said "Some hood delivered two arrows for you while you were out, they're on your desk". I noticed that both the arrows had notes attached (surprise, surprise).
The first said "Hey shooter, I'm part of a circle or maybe a ring". The second "I'm the objective case of she, marry us". This was a classic rebus. I had to identify the two words that corresponded to these clues and then join them to form one word.
10. (HOMOPHONE) I have no ideas any more. I give up I said to no one... and no one listened. I knew that Archer was Terri Alderman's maiden name but I couldn't figure out how it fitted into this little ring of intrigue. All it did was make my booze clouds thicker. The phone rang. "Herbert Samuels" I said. The mechanical voice responded;
"Homophone, on the phone. Your name is Herb and you've run out of time".
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