Murder by the Dozen/Solutions

Case #1. OTTO TELCHER.

To win, you must have:

1. Named Jeanette O'Neil as the murderess.
2. Explained Jeanette's motive by mentioning EACH of the following:

   A. She was in desperate need of the money because her son, Robert, was dying and needed a kidney operation.

   B. Otto Telcher was no longer willing to pay further medical bills for Robert.

   C. Otto Telcher was in the process of cutting Jeanette and Robert out of his will.

- Note: Although Jeanette's motive on the simplest level was a need for money, ALL THREE POINTS must be covered in your explanation or you have NOT correctly solved the case.

THE STORY: Jeanette O'Neil had placed an advertisement in the News Herald asking Telcher to meet her at eleven o'clock in the parking lot of Telcher's Chemical Plant. He had been paying her $5,000 every three months for the last eight years in child support. They always met secretly. Telcher always paid in cash.

When they met, Telcher told her that he had been looking over Robert's medical records at Dr. Reznick's office when he noticed that Robert had Type A blood. Knowing that both he, Telcher, and Jeanette were Type 0, it was genetically impossible for Robert to be his son. Therefore, Telcher would be damned if he was going to pay another cent to Jeanette. Telcher also informed her that he was in the process of cutting both Jeanette and Robert out of his will. He told her she had seen the last of his money.

Realizing that Robert would die without a kidney operation, a distraught Jeanette decided to kill Telcher immediately, before he had a chance to finish changing his will. She knew that even if she were caught, Robert would still inherit, and live. So, she ran Telcher down. Twice.

Case #2. WALLY SNARK.

To win, you must have:

1. Named Hector Bigby as the murderer.
2. Mentioned any four of the following six sets of clues:

   A. The nylon rope used to tie up Snark was identical to the rope at the loading dock to which Bigby had access.

   B. Snark weighted 197 pounds. Two attendants struggled to cut him down. Bigby was strong as an ox. He could lift 200 pound crates "like they were nothing."

   C. The blow to Snark's head was struck by a left-handed person. Bigby was left-handed.

   D. Snark was killed between 11 P.M. and 2 A.M. Bigby had arranged to meet him at the Warehouse at 11:30 P.M.

   E. A freshly-painted brown school door had been jimmied open. Bigby hat a crow bar in his car that had streaks of brown paint on it.

   F. Snark died as a result of an overdose of heroin. Bigby being a drug dealer, had access to heroin.

THE STORY: Hector Bigby wanted to take over Wally Snark's lucrative High School Territory. Bigby hoped that spiking Snark's cocaine with arsenic would be enough to discredit Snark with the student body and drive Snark out of business. When that did not work, Bigby decided on a more direct approach. He arranged to meet Snark at the Warehouse at night. When they met, Bigby knocked out Snark, gave him a massive overdose of heroin, then drove him to the school. Bigby used the crow bar in his car to pry open the newly-painted brown side door. Then, using rope from the loading dock, he tied Snark to the gymnastic rings where he was found, dead, the next morning.

Case #3. MICHAEL BRENNER.

To win, you must have:

1. Identified Leman Lewis as the murderer.
2. Located the bonds in the linen closet of Lewis' apartment.

Note: Being an extremely honest cop, you returned all the bonds to the bank and did not mislay one for ten thousand dollars which would helped your retirement along considerably.

THE STORY: Leman Lewis listened to Glenda Fell's warning that Michael Brenner had broken the computer's security program. Having written the program himself, it was easy for Lewis to trace which account Michael was putting the money into and to order the computer to notify him in the event Michael transferred the money out. On Friday, the money was transferred and Lewis started following Michael. When Brenner came out of the restaurant holding his briefcase full of negotiable bonds, Lewis decided it was the perfect opportunity to kill Brenner and steal the bonds.

Case #4. ADRIENNE BISHOP.

To win, you must have:

1. Identified Calvin Burr as the murderer.
2. Explained that an argument over money and/or gambling led to the unintentional murder. The motive was the white-hot passion of the argument
   Or,
   Described the scratches on Calvin Burr's arms and back as the one piece of evidence which supports your case.

THE STORY: Vincent Guancial was holding gambling markers for fifty thousand dollars from Calvin Burr. Calvin told Guancial that he was tapped out, but was waiting for a trust fund check, due the following week. Guancial didn't trust or believe Burr, so he called Adrienne Bishop, Burr's fiancee, and told her that if she wanted Cal in one piece at their wedding, she'd better cover his debt. She agreed on the condition Guancial would no longer accept Cal's bet. Guancial agreed. Burr came over to Adrienne's that night. The next morning, before Cal dressed, Adrienne told him she was meeting Guancial that afternoon and paying him off. But Cal was either going to have to give up gambling or she would leave him. They had a violent argument which ended with Burr killing her. During the struggle, Adrienne scratched Burr's back and arms, but his shirt covered the scratches when he dressed.

Case #5. CLAUDE FINLEY.

To win, you must have:

1. Identified Tex Plowman as the killer.
2. Interviewed Boris Wier, who saw and wrote down the license plate number of the car in which the killer drove away. This car belonged to Tex Plowman.

Note: There is other suggestive evidence in this case. For example, the Cuban cigars. But all such evidence is not conclusive. Two of the prime suspects smoked the identical brand of cigar, so it proved nothing.

THE STORY: The Texas Construction Company, owned by Tex Plowman, was in trouble. It was in the middle of a huge construction project for the city, but the only way it could keep costs under its bid was to use cheaper materials than those required by the specifications. So Texas Construction made a payoff deal with Councilman Johnson, their standard operating procedure when in bind.

Tex Plowman was very concerned about the exposés the News Herald had been running on Johnson's activities. If Texas Construction's latest payoff came to light, the project would go down the tubes and Texas Construction would be bankrupt. When Lenny Yarrow told Plowman that Finley had been looking over the books, Plowman put two and two together and realized that Finley was the News Herald's source of information. Plowman then realized that unless he acted quickly, Texas Construction was through.

Case #6. LISA FENTON.

To win, you must have:

1. Stated Lisa was murdered.
2. Named her son, Carl, as the murderer. He was motivated to kill her because to his psychologically unbalanced mind, his mother was the cause of all his problems.

THE STORY: Carl knew that the other boys whispered about his mother behind his back or heard their parents discussing her. He knew that they laughed at his father, the person who loved him and raised him, for putting up with her. When she left a huge weight was lifted from his life. Carl could begin living normally without snickering and snide remarks. Then his mother came back. And his father accepted her; he was willing to make a fresh start! Carl decided then that he had to kill her if he ever wanted a real life for himself.

Carl emptied his bottle of Thorazine into his mother's brandy at the poolside bar. He stayed awake that night. When she had gone to sit in the moonlight, Carl sneaked into her bathroom and emptied her Valium into a paper cup and made sure it dissolved. Then he spilled it down the sink, leaving just a slight residue for the police to find. He then went downstairs and waited for his mother to collapse from the Thorazine. When she did, her glass of brandy fell and smashed on the patio. He rolled her into the pool, cleaned up the broken glass, but missed a shard that landed under the bush nearest his mother's chair. He then switched the poisoned bottle of brandy for a good one. When she was discovered in the morning, he felt everyone would think she had taken the Valium and fallen or jumped into the pool. Her death would be considered an accident or a suicide.

Case #7. THEO DEMARCUS.

To win, you must have:

1. Identified Freddy Erikson as the murderer.
2. Explained that Erikson's motive in killing Demarcus was to protect his gang and/or warn other would-be informers to keep away from the cops.
3. Found the blazer with the missing sleeve button to match the button found clenched in Demarcus' fist. It was located in the master bedroom of Erikson's apartment.

THE STORY: Theo Demarcus was an undercover cop working out of robbery. He had been assigned to the Warehouse to discover who was responsible for the large number of thefts there. He was approached by a gang member when he let it be known that he needed money and wasn't too particular about how he made it.

As it turned out, the gang's next job was going to be at Liebman's Jewelry Store, not at the warehouse. Because he didn't trust Demarcus, Rodriguez decided to follow him after the robbery to see what he did. Rodriguez overheard Demarcus call Captain Parker of Robbery from a phone booth. Demarcus set up a meeting in front of St. Peter's after services the next day. Rodriguez figured him for a police informer and told the ringleader of the gang, Freddy Erikson, everything he'd learned.

Case #8. WALTER KENT.

To win, you must have:

1. Identified Vaughn "Viper" Rozzelli as the murderer.

Note: any form of his name is acceptable for a correct solution.

THE STORY: All three of Kent's underlings resented his trying to take back what they had held for eight years. Viper Rozzelli decided to act. He knew that Kent loved old Cagney movies so when he saw that "White Heat" was going to be shown, he knew Kent would be there. Viper got to the theater early and sat in the back. He waited until Kent came in, then moved to a seat in Kent's row, but off to the side. When the movie's gun battle started, Viper stood up and walked along the row towards Kent, as if he were leaving. Reaching Kent, Rozzelli shot him four times, continued to the center aisle and left. He was long gone by the time Kent's body was discovered.

Case #9. WENDY FLETCHER.

To win, you must have named Art Fletcher as the guilty person.

THE STORY: After a messy divorce and an even messier custody fight which he lost, Art Fletcher decided to get custody of his daughter, Risa, outside of the law. The divorce and custody fight left him bitter and by now, he genuinely hated Wendy, his ex-wife. He knew that if he kidnapped Risa, he would probably be found and Risa would be taken back. He decided to kill Wendy, instead.

Working his construction job, Fletcher sneaked out two sticks of Tovex, a plastic explosive, by pretending to add one extra stick to two different charges, then taking the extra two unexploded sticks for his own purposes. Fletcher used these two sticks to kill Wendy by wiring them to her car. Having spent a lot of time at Guancial's Bar (AA), Fletcher knew Guancial made book, so he wrote the letter and slipped it under the door to focus attention on other bookies. Did it work?

Case #10. JEREMY TODD.

To win, you must have:

1. Stated that Todd was not murdered, but committed suicide.
2. Mentioned any four of the following nine clues in support of your case:

   A. The telephone, which was off the hook, had no fingerprints on it.

   B. Todd's body had three times the prescribed dosage of morphine in it.

   C. Todd's neighbor, Cindy Jordon, said she heard him yell, "I only wish I could live to see you hang, Opal!"

   D. Todd arranged for the Drug Store to make a delivery. He disapproved considering them a waste of money.

   E. Todd insisted the delivery be made at two in the afternoon, when he knew he'd be home all day.

   F. Todd knew he had inoperable cancer and wouldn't live to see his case go to court.

   G. Todd had told his psychiatrist that he would kill himself when the pain became severe.

   H. Todd hated Lawrence Roebuck. Todd blamed Roebuck for Todd's failures.

THE STORY: Jeremy Todd was a loser. A few years ago, he loaned his best friends, Lawrence Roebuck, $10,000 to start a Flower Shop. A couple of months later, Todd was given the opportunity to buy into a small computer company at a good price. He asked Roebuck for the money back, but Roebuck had already spent in on the store. Todd lost his opportunity which, as it turned out, could have made him a millionaire, and from then on Todd hated Roebuck. A few moths ago, Todd started a suit against Roebuck hoping to bankrupt him.

Todd then set the stage by wiping most of the surfaces in his kitchen to make it look as if someone had tried to hide the fact that they had been there. This is where Tod made his biggest mistake. After taking the phone off the hook, he wiped it clean of prints. Obviously, if he was reaching for it while dying, his fingerprints would have been on it.

Todd then set the bread and sandwich meal out and left the front door ajar. He took three of his morphine pills, and, in an impulse born of impotent rage, shouted, "I'm only sorry I won't be alive to see you hang, Old Pal!" Then he stabbed himself, knowing that the Drug Store delivery boy would be along in a couple of hours to discover his dead body.

Case #11. LEONORA TIBBET.

To win, you must have:

1. Identified Penny Marlowe as the murderess.
2. Named one of the following two clues in support of your case:

   A. Penny grabbed the metal bedpan and threw it on the floor.

   B. Penny's fingerprints were the only ones found on the bedpan.

THE STORY: Penny Marlowe hated her job and when her wealthy aunt had a serious heart attack, she thought her whole life was about to change. But her hopes were dashed when her aunt survived and began regaining strength.

After work, Penny went to the hospital to pay a visit and found her aunt asleep. While sitting and waiting for Aunt Leonora to awaken, Penny began to think how easy it would be to smother the woman with a pillow and then slip the pillow back under her head. Penny was alone and knew her arrival had not been noticed. An 82-year-old heart attack victim dying in her sleep in a hospital would not arouse questions.

Without any conscious decision, Penny suddenly found herself pressing a pillow into her aunt's face. Surprisingly, Aunt Leonora put up a terrific struggle. When her aunt's hand reached the nurse call button and pressed it, Penny panicked. If Leonora Tibbet lived, everyone would know what had happened.

Penny grabbed the first solid object she could find, the metal bedpan, and beat her aunt on the head until the struggling stopped. She the heard footsteps in the hall as Nurse Abromovitz was coming to answer the call button. Penny squeezed into the closet just as the nurse entered the room. When Nurse Abromovitz left to get help, Penny slipped out of the closet, went to the door, and started screaming. She did not have to fake hysteria.

Case #12. JOSHUA GIGGLE.

To win, you must have:

1. Named Joel Stelbright as the killer.
2. Explained that Stelbright felt the foreman's job was rightfully his and that Joshua Giggle had taken it away from him. This jealousy was Stalbright's motive.
3. Mentioned two of the four following clues in support of your case:

   A. Stelbright smokes Marlboros, which were found on the scene of the crime.

   B. Stelbright is right-handed.

   C. After having had a few at the bar, Stelbright confided that the foreman's job was as good as his, even if no one else knew it yet.

   D. Phillip Ball saw him commit the murder.

THE STORY: Joel Stelbright resented being passed over for the foreman's job. He particularly resented that he was passed over due to pressure from his fellow workers, with whom he was popular. They, however, felt promotion to the foreman's job was a just and deserved compensation for Josh who had been the victim of an injustice.

Stelbright hid his resentment, going so far as to arrange a little party to celebrate Josh's rehiring and promotion at Guancial's Bar. As soon as work was finished, Stelbright left, not even taking time to clean his hands thoroughly. He knew Josh would be walking through the park. Stelbright found a heavy branch, hid behind some trees and waited for Josh to appear. While Stelbright waited, he smoked and trimmed the branch into a club. As soon as Josh passed his position, Stelbright stepped out and clubbed him.

Compilation of all clues for the individual cases

For each criminal case, the following sections compile all locations within the city of Micropolis where useful clues can be found, and list those clues in full. This reveals how the case could have been solved — whereas the solution booklet provides a complete account of the crime itself but not the leads required to solve it.

Case #1: Otto Telcher, Industrialist (Starting Point: The Telcher House)

The Telcher House

Talk to Rita Telcher, wife

• I'm not too unhappy. He left me well off and I couldn't stand him anyway.
• I can't imagine who'd want to kill him.

Talk to Norbert Telcher, son

• I hated my father.

Inspect the garage

• The tire pattern is different from that found at the scene.

Go over the study

• You find a bank book showing regular withdrawals of $5,000 over the past eight years.
• There are three appointment book notes: 1-See Sloan (T) about new will; 2-pay Dr. Reznick (P) (crossed out); 3- meet JO'N at 11.
• A note from plant security states that Malcolm Roebuck, a chemist at the plant, broke into the safe in Telcher's office.
• A News Herald (0) is opened to the personal ads. One reads, "$5,000 at 11, in the Parking Lot-JO'N.".

The Associated Bank

Examine the records of a specific account

• It shows that all the withdrawals over the past eight years have been in cash.

Roebuck's Flower Shop

Talk to Maria Roebuck

• My first husband, Johann Greenwich, had discovered a chemical catalyst that made Telcher rich.
• My first husband was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
• Telcher was a thief. He talked me into selling him my husband's shares in Telcher Chemical, then introduced the new catalyst and made a fortune.
• Telcher got rich by swindling me, but I don't care now that I have Lawrence and the shop.

Talk to Lawrence Roebuck, owner

• I married Maria soon after her husband died. I adopted her son, Malcolm, a couple of months later.

Look over the office

• A picture of Malcolm Greenwich Roebuck graduating college hangs on the wall.

Examine the delivery van

• The tire pattern is different from that found at the scene.

The News Herald

Interview John Bowman, the editor

• I think Maria Greenwich should be your prime suspect in Telcher's death.
• Telcher bought her shares for a song before he introduced the new chemical catalyst.

Interview Frank Connors, ace reporter

• When Telcher first introduced his new catalyst, we did a story on it. I discovered that he cheated his partner's widow out of a fortune.
• I think I'd check out Maria Roebuck as suspect number one. She's the widow. She and her new husband own the Florist Shop (K).

Interview Sally Bennet, advertising manager

• Jeanette and Robert O'Neil live in the Sinclair Towers (Y).
• I think Telcher was giving Jeanette all that money because he was Robert's real father.

Look up the back issues

• Ads similar to the one found on Telcher's desk are in every issue dated one day earlier than the bank withdrawal.

Go over the ad records

• All the ads signed JO'N were placed by Jeanette O'Neil.

Dr. Reznick's Office

Interview Dr. Reznick

• Eight-year-old Robert O'Neil needs a kidney operation.

Talk to Nurse Fitzpatrick

• Telcher was reading Robert's file recently, and apparently found something that made him very angry.

Talk to Helen Todd, receptionist

• Otto Telcher has paid all of Robert O'Neil's medical bills, except the last one. Last week, Telcher called to say he was not going to pay any future bills. I was surprised.
• Jeanette and Robert O'Neil live in the Sinclair Towers (Y).

Check the patient files

• Robert O'Neil's blood type is A. Jeanette and Telcher both are type 0.
• This proves that Robert could not possibly be Telcher's son.

The Garden Apartments

Quiz Malcolm Roebuck

• I broke into the safe to prove Telcher swindled my mother.
• I consulted my lawyer, who told me there was no legal recourse.
• I spent all last night at Guancial's Bar (AA). I left when it closed, at one in the morning.

Interview Rhonda Rheim, the manager

• She shows you which car belongs to Malcolm.

Go through the master bedroom

• You find photocopies of Johann Greenwich's notebook which prove he discovered the catalyst before he died.

Examine the car in the carport

• The tire pattern is different from that found at the scene.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Sloan & Williams Law Office

Interview Wayne Sloan

• Telcher's will currently provides a trust fund for Jeanette O'Neil and her son, Robert.
• Telcher was in the process of taking Jeanette and Robert O'Neil out of the will.
• I believe that Telcher was Robert O'Neil's real father.

Interview Roland Williams

• I believe that Telcher was Robert O'Neil's real father.

The Telcher Chemical Plant

Interview Harry Bell, security chief

• Malcolm Roebuck is a chemist at the Telcher Chemical Plant (U).
• Malcolm Roebuck's fingerprints were found inside Telcher's safe.
• Malcolm Roebuck lives at the Garden Apartments (Q).

Interview Thelma Rice, executive V.P.

• I think Maria Greenwich should be your prime suspect in Telcher's death.
• Telcher bought her shares for a song before he introduced the new chemical catalyst.
• Maria works at the Florist Shop (K).

Search the Telcher's office

• You find a memo addressed to the personnel department, telling them to fire Malcolm Roebuck.

The Warehouse

Talk to Hector Bigby

• I don't talk to pigs!

Sinclair Towers

Talk to Bobby Teige, the super

• He takes you to the underground garage and shows you which car belongs to Jeanette.

Talk to Jeanette O'Neil

• My son, Robert, is in the Hospital (Z). He needs to have a kidney removed.
• I was visiting Robert at the Hospital (Z) until eight at night.
• From the Hospital (Z), I went to dinner.
• I got home around nine-thirty and went right to bed.
• I can't imagine who'd want to kill him.

Talk to Tony Amici, the doorman

• I'm sure Jeanette wasn't home when I went off duty at ten last night.

Examine Jeanette O'Neil's car

• The tire pattern matches the bloody track found in the parking lot.

City Hospital

Talk to Heddy Stokes, head nurse

• Eight-year-old Robert O'Neil needs a kidney operation.

Interview Dr. Gilbert Frankel, chief of surgery

• Eight-year-old Robert O'Neil needs a kidney operation.

Check the medical files

• Eight-year-old Robert O'Neil needs a kidney operation.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Sal Madalena, bartender

• I remember seeing Malcolm come in around eight that night.

Talk to Vincent Guancial, owner

• I remember asking Malcolm to leave at one, when we closed.

Talk to Wendy Fletcher, barmaid

• Yes, Malcolm was here all night. Oh, roughly from eight 'til one.

Case #2: Wally Snark, Suspected Drug Dealer (Starting Point: Mid-City High School)

The Cordwinder House

Talk to Vernon Cordwinder, father

• I never did find out who sold Carol that poisoned cocaine.
• My wife died two years ago. I spent the entire evening here with Sammy.

Talk to Samuel, the son

• My father is an ex-marine. He's really stayed in shape.
• My father was home all last night.
• I went to bed at 10 o'clock, like always.

Look at the basement

• There is a set of body building weights.
• There is a roll of cloth rope usually used for hanging laundry.

The Telcher House

Interview Anita, the housekeeper

• I had no plans to see Wally last night.
• Wally had to meet Bigby at the Warehouse (V) at eleven-thirty last night.
• I overheard him say that Bigby was going to tell him who had put the arsenic in the cocaine.

Mid-City High School

Interview John Frolick, the Principal

• Carol Cordwinder, a cheerleader and honor student, died around two weeks ago.
• She died after taking cocaine that had been laced with arsenic.

Talk with Doris Kenner, gym teacher

• Rumor has it that Randy Butler, the quarterback on the High School football team, uses cocaine.
• Randy dated Carol Cordwinder. She died two weeks ago.
• She died after taking cocaine that had been laced with arsenic.

Speak to Pat Higgins, Chief of Maintenance

• A side door of the school, which had been freshly-painted brown, was jimmied open last night.
• The ladder in the Gym is one of ours.

Examine the Gym

• There is a set of body building weights.

Look up student records

• Carol Cordwinder's family lives at 17 North Street (House A).
• Randy Butler lives with his mother at the Garden Apartments (Q).
• Randy has not been to school in over a week.

The Associated Bank

Examine the records of a specific account

• It shows that all the withdrawals over the past eight years have been in cash.

The Police Station

Call Sgt. Buller, Narcotics

• Wally Snark has been the school pusher for years.
• Everyone knew Snark was pushing poisoned cocaine, we just couldn't prove it.

Call Turk, your pet stool pigeon

• Word on the street says Bigby, a rival pusher, put the arsenic in Wally Snark's coke.
• They say Bigby was trying to move in on Snark's territory.
• Wally Snark dated Anita Fuentes, the Telcher housekeeper (C).

Read the autopsy report

• Snark died as a result of a massive overdose of heroin, injected sometime between 11 P.M. and 2 A.M.
• The blow to the back of Snark's head was struck by a left-handed person.
• Wally Snark weighed one-hundred-ninety-seven pounds.

Read the lab report

• The rope used to tie Snark to the rings is a type commonly used for packing.
• It is made from three cords of nylon thread, twisted together.

Run a computer search through records

• Wally Snark: suspected drug dealer, four arrests, no convictions.
• Other suspected dealers are: Charles "Indian" Brave who works the park (S) and Hector Bigby, who works the Warehouse area (V).

The Garden Ápartments

Talk to Randy Butler

• It's all my fault. I talked Carol into trying cocaine in the first place.
• I've spent the last week either drinking, or hung over.
• I spent all last night at Guancial's Bar (AA). I left when it closed, at one in the morning.

Search Randy's bedroom

• There is a big poster of Randy holding a football in his right hand, cocked and ready to throw.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Talk to Francis Keaton, hot dog vendor

• It's a shame you don't run trash like that "Indian" Brave out of town.

Interview Hugh Lathem, park worker

• It's a shame you don't run trash like that "Indian" Brave out of town.

Give 'Indian' Brave the once over

• He makes a fist with his right hand and shakes it under your nose. This would indicate that he is right-handed.

The Warehouse

Interview Joe Falconi, the foreman

• Bigby just hangs around the loading dock. He doesn't work here.

Talk to Hector Bigby

• I don't talk to pigs!

Talk to Hector Bigby

• Bigby is strong as an ox. I've seen him lift two-hundred-pound crates like they were nothing!

Give Hector Bigby the once-over

• You notice that he wears his watch on his right wrist which indicates that he is probably left-handed.

Check out the loading dock

• There's a bale of rope sitting on the dock.
• It is made from three cords of nylon thread, twisted together.

Look at Bibgy's car

• You see a crow bar with a streak of brown paint on it.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Sal Madalena, bartender

• That Butler kid has been in here every night this week, but what the hell. He's got his proof.
• He drinks two or three shots of Scotch and falls asleep. We let him sleep until closing time. We close at one.

Case #3: Michael Brenner, Computer Programmer (Starting Point: The Associated Bank)

The Telcher House

Talk to Rita Telcher, wife

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Talk to Norbert Telcher, son

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Interview Anita, the housekeeper

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

The Associated Bank

Interview Leman Lewis, branch manager

• One of our tellers, Glenda Fell, is studying computer programming at night.
• She dated Brenner a few times and used to like to watch him work during her breaks.
• She once mentioned to me that Michael seemed to be doing something fishy with the computer.
• I'm afraid I didn't take her very seriously.
• I really don't know that much about computer security and I underestimated how smart Brenner was.

Interview Glenda Fell, teller

• I dated Michael a few times. He lived at the Garden Apartments (Q).
• Michael used to like to hang around the Bar (AA) on weekends.
• I once warned Mr. Lewis that Michael had broken the computer security program.
• I've been taking a course in programming, but I guess he didn't really believe I knew what I was talking about.

Examine the records of a specific account

• Two million dollars were transferred out of this unnumbered account on Friday.

Liebman's Jewelry Store

Talk to Brad Phillips, employee

• Michael found it hard working at the Bank (E), because Lewis used to watch everything he did.
• Last year, Lewis had a Christmas party at his apartment at the Sinclair Towers (Y) and invited Michael.
• Lewis spent all night bragging how he had set up the perfect computer security program.
• He claimed it was unbreakable.
• That's why he was promoted to branch manager. He understood money and he was a computer whiz.
• Michael used to swear that one day he would break Lewis' program.

The News Herald

Interview John Bowman, the editor

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Interview Frank Connors, ace reporter

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Interview Sally Bennet, advertising manager

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

The Garden Ápartments

Interview Rhonda Rheim, the manager

• Michael told me he had just gotten a new job in New York.
• He was going to have to move almost immediately.
• It didn't make much sense because he was carrying his briefcase with him.
• I mean, why would he bring work home with him if he was leaving his job at the Bank (E)?

Talk to Charles Doman, the handyman

• I saw Mr. Brenner going out Friday evening, around seven.
• I asked him where he was going. He said he was going out to dinner.
• I didn't believe him, though, 'cause he was carrying his briefcase with him.
• Of course, I never saw him go to work that late before.

Go through the master bedroom

• There is a plane ticket for a Saturday morning flight to Rio de Janeiro on his dresser.

Examine the car in the carport

• There is no sign of the money or the bonds.

Search the linen closet

• There is no sign of the money or the bonds.

Restaurant In The Park

Talk to Wilma Jackson, cashier

• Was he the man who was shot in our parking lot last Friday night?
• He's the guy who came in with the briefcase.
• He never let it out of his sight the whole time he was in here.

Speak to Brenda O'Connor, waitress

• Sure, I remember the guy. He had this briefcase with him. He ate with it sitting on his lap.

Interview Edmond Teal, chef

• When I heard the shots, two or three I think, I ran outside.
• I saw this guy, a white dude, well dressed-he had a suit on, kneeling next to this other guy and going through his pockets.
• When he heard me coming, he jumped up, grabbed a suitcase or something and ran to a car, a Caddie, I think. Then he took off.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Talk to Francis Keaton, hot dog vendor

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Interview Hugh Lathem, park worker

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Sinclair Towers

Talk to Tony Amici, the doorman

• Yeah, Mr. Lewis worked very late Friday night.
• He didn't get in until after eleven and he was carrying work home with him in a briefcase.

Search the master bedroom

• There is a .22 caliber pistol in the night table next to the bed.

Check the linen closet

• You find a briefcase. It is packed with negotiable bonds.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Sal Madalena, bartender

• Sure, I knew Michael. He used to come in on weekends with Brad Phillips.
• They passed a lot of Saturday nights trying to pick up women.
• Some nights they had better luck than others.
• Brad works over at Liebman's Jewelry (J). He picked me up a real nice chain for my wife.

Case #4: Adrienne Bishop, High Fashion Model (Starting Point: Martha's Boutique)

The Associated Bank

Interview Glenda Fell, teller

• I remember Mr. Burr saying he was expecting his trust fund check anytime this week. He would transfer his account when it arrived.

Examine the records of a specific account

• All the money in the joint account came from Adrienne Bishop's individual account.
• There is $350,000 in the account today. Adrienne had taken $50,000 out yesterday as a check payable to Vincent Guancial.
• Calvin Burr's old account contains $237.53.

The Library

Talk to Roberta Donner, assistant librarian

• Adrienne and I haven't spoken since we argued about her engagement to Calvin Burr.
• I told her he was a compulsive gambler, that Vincent Guancial was his bookie.
• She didn't believe me. She thought I was jealous because Cal and I were once engaged.
• The joke of it is, she was only marrying him for his money and status. She never loved him.

Martha's Boutique

Talk to Janet McAfry, salesperson

• Adrienne told me she was being blackmailed by Sandy Eiserson. He's a photographer.
• He has a studio and an apartment at the Garden Apartments (Q).
• When she was just breaking in, when she was seventeen or so, she did a set of . . . well, indiscreet photos for him.
• He threatened to send them to Cal's family if she didn't give him some money. I advised her to tell Cal about it, then forget it.

Talk to Phyllis Purdie, salesperson

• Yes, she mentioned the pictures to me. But yesterday, she told me she was going to tell Cal everything at lunch today.
• She was a little worried because his family is so prim and proper, but she wasn't the type to let herself be blackmailed.

The Police Station

Call Lt. Sotomayer, Vice

• Vincent Guancial is one of the bi::est bookies around. I've heard that Calvin Burr bets heavily with him.

Call Turk, your pet stool pigeon

• I hear talk that Guancial has markers for up to $50,000 from Cal Burr.
• The way I hear it, if Burr doesn't pay up by midnight tonight, he's going to get broken up real bad.
• I don't know how true it is, but I heard that Guancial called the Bishop broad. He told her if she wanted Burr in one piece for the wedding, she'd better come up with the money today.
• She told him she'd pay, but this was it. Burr was to get no more credit. All bets were off from now on.

Read the autopsy report

• She was not sexually assaulted when she was killed. However, she had made love sometime within 24 hours of her death.
• She died from manual strangulation sometime between nine and ten A.M.

Read the lab report

• There was no sign of forced entry.
• The skin under her nails is definitely human and Caucasian.

Dr. Reznick's Office

Interview Dr. Reznick

• When I got Calvin home, I decided to examine him and then give him something to calm him.
• When I tried to take his blood pressure, he refused. I told him he was being silly I'd taken it hundreds of times before.
• I asked him if there was something wrong. He said no. His arm just hurt where his cat had scratched him.
• The scratches didn't look like any cat scratches I'd ever seen. They were wider and more ragged.

The Garden Ápartments

Quiz Sandy Eiserson

• This bandage on my face? I had a mole removed at the hospital (Z) two days ago. Dr. Quinn was my doctor. She did a good job, too.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Sloan & Williams Law Office

Interview Roland Williams

• Adrienne and Cal had recently changed their wills, each naming the other as the beneficiary.
• I suggested they wait until they were married, but Adrienne was in a hurry. She wanted to do it now.
• Calvin didn't seem to care about it one way or the other.

Sinclair Towers

Talk to Frieda Liebman, neighbor

• I was on my way out when I saw Mr. Burr going into Adrienne's apartment last night. That must have been around ten or so.
• No, it wasn't unusual. He often spent the night. After all, they were engaged.
• This morning I heard a terrible argument in there, sometime around nine.

Talk to Freddy Erikson, neighbor

• Sometime around nine-thirty this morning, I heard a lot of screaming in there. It sounded like a man and a woman arguing.
• I didn't do anything about it at the time because I figured, what the hell, people argue.

Talk to Calvin Burr

• I really don't know what else I can tell you. It was a terrible shock walking in on . . . poor Adrienne.
• How could such a thing happen?

City Hospital

Interview Dr. Lisa Quinn

• Yes, I removed a mole from Mr. Eiserson's left cheek.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Vincent Guancial, owner

• Yes, Miss Bishop had a check for me. It was a repayment of a loan I made her last year.
• Whoever's been telling you stories about me being a bookie is just flappin' his gums. I'm a legit businessman.

Case #5: Claude Finley, City Clerk (Starting Point: The Municipal Building)

Stone's Drug Store

Pick up the film prints

• There are photos of memos from Johnson to Plowman setting up payoffs in return for approving sub-standard materials.
• There are photos of the Texas Construction account books which show they will be bankrupt if their deal with Johnson is exposed.

The Library

Talk to Dory Smith, librarian

• Roberta and I had just left for lunch. We were walking by this car when it suddenly took off. I'm sure he hit that man deliberately.

Talk to Roberta Donner, assistant librarian

• I remember seeing the car idling at the curb, like it was waiting for someone.
• The driver was smoking a cigar. I remember because he flipped it out the window and almost hit me with it.
• Well, right after that, he roared off. He aimed directly for that poor man.

The Municipal Building

Interview Peter Johnson, city councilman

• I was shocked to hear about Claude. I was lunching with Judge Tanner when Penny called me and told me what happened. A terrible tragedy.

Talk to Penny Marlowe, Secretary

• Councilman Johnson was having lunch with Judge Tanner when I called to tell him what happened.

Interview Judge Bruce Tanner

• Peter and I had just about finished eating when he got a call from his secretary. She told him one of his clerks had been killed.

Check motor vehicle records

• Johnson owns a two-tone blue Cadillac. The license plate number is 954-CCM.
• Plowman owns a black Lincoln Continental. The license plate number is 713-CSG.
• Sinclair owns a black Bentley. Its license plate number is 147-OS.

Texas Construction, Inc.

Interview Tex Plowman, president

• I don't know if I ever met Claude Finley. I know Pete Johnson has sent him over here a number of times.
• Have a cigar? A friend picks them up for me in Europe. They're the very best Cuban. (He smiles.) Just don't tell the F.B.I.
• I'm proud of Texas Construction. We only build the best. That's why we are the best.

Talk to Lenny Yarrow, Plowman's assistant

• The last time Finley was here I threw him out.
• He was supposed to pick up some memos, but I was busy when he arrived.
• I asked him to wait in the office. When I finally joined him, I caught him closing one of our account books.
• He had obviously been going through our books. Naturally, I told Mr. Plowman about it.
• Mr. Plowman was out inspecting one of our construction sites all morning. He got back a little after one this afternoon.

Interview Roy Bowman, chief engineer

• Plowman's an electrical engineer. He knows which corners we can cut and which we can't.
• Johnson's a mechanical illiterate. If we did everything he approved, our buildings would come down in a stiff breeze.

Go over Plowman's office

• There is a humidor full of Cuban cigars sitting on his desk.

Check the specifications on file

• Many have memos attached, approving changes in the materials used. All are signed by P. Johnson for the City Council.

The Police Station

Read the lab report

• There were no fingerprints in the stolen car, but there was ash from an expensive Cuban cigar on the rug. The owners don't smoke.
• The stolen car was hot-wired in an unusual and expert manner, obviously by someone who knows electronics.
• Finley had a receipt stating that he had left a roll of film to be developed at the Drug Store (F).

The News Herald

Interview John Bowman, the editor

• A couple of days ago, Mr. Finley called. I spoke to him.
• He told me he had hard evidence on one of our two remaining payola deals. It would put them right out of business.
• He wouldn't name the firm until he was paid, but it had to be either Texas Construction (L) or Sinclair Builders (Y).

Interview Frank Connors, ace reporter

• We've been running accounts of Councilman Johnson's misdeeds for the last six months.
• We've already exposed four of his construction payoff deals. We're almost ready to report on his two latest and most blatant ones.
• Claude Finley was our inside man. He'd been feeding us the dope on Johnson.
• Listen, I've got to run. Talk to Bowman. He can fill you in on anything I've missed.

Look up the back issues

• They show a pattern of abuse of public office and public trust.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Belman's Gas Station

Talk to Freddy Belman, owner, day man

• After the green Grenada hit the guy, it turned here, went down to Guancial's Bar (AA) and turned towards the cemetery (BB).

Sinclair Towers

Interview Wendel Sinclair, President

• Who is Claude Finley? I've never heard of him.
• I'm not worried about the News Herald exposing my crooked deals. I haven't got any.

Talk to Eunice Gladden, secretary

• Mr. Sinclair has been in conference since eight-thirty this morning.
• I'm sure he's never met Claude Finley, or any other city clerk. ,

Talk to Tony Amici, the doorman

• Mr. Sinclair has been in all morning.

Look over Sinclair's office

• There is a humidor full of Cuban cigars sitting on his desk.

Check specifications on file

• Many have memos attached, approving changes in the materials used. All are signed by P. Johnson for the City Council.

Look through the underground garage

• Sinclair owns a black Bentley. Its license plate number is 147-OS.

The Church of St. Peter

Talk to Boris Weir, cemetery caretaker

• There was a big black car illegally parked in front of the cemetary all morning.
• Around twelve-fifteen, twelve-twenty, I saw this green car pull up. The one you say is stolen.
• A man got out and drove off in the black car. The one that had been parked illegally.
• I'm pretty sure about the time, I was getting ready to go to lunch and call the police.
• I was going to complain about the black car, but it had been moved.
• I don't know much about cars, but I did write the license plate number down, if that will help. It was 713-CSG.

Case #6: Lisa Fenton, Runaway Housewife (Starting Point: The Fenton House)

The Fenton House

Interview Dr. Sheldon Fenton, husband

• My wife was thirty-eight, but looked thirty. Last year she looked twenty-five. She was beginning to age faster. She finally realized she wasn't a kid anymore.
• This was the first time she had actually run away. But, when she came back, I really believed she was ready to settle down.
• No, I didn't kill her. If I had, it would have been years ago, not now, when she was ready to settle down and start over.
• I'm a heavy sleeper. I didn't hear her get up. But then, I never did.

Talk to Sharon Fenton, daughter

• I think Mom was serious when she said she wanted to stay with us from now on.
• I heard her telling some man on the phone yesterday afternoon that she was finished with all that.
• She used to go out at one or two in the morning and sit by the pool sipping brandy. Everybody who knows her knows that.

Talk to Carl Fenton, son

• I don't think she was going to change. After all these years, why should she?
• My father only stayed with her to avoid a custody fight with Sharon and me in the middle.
• Since she's been back, she's seemed depressed to me. But, I don't know if she'd kill herself.

Examine the bathroom off the master bedroom

• There is an empty vial of Valium standing on the sink.

Mid-City High School

Talk to Judy Kern, guidance counselor

• Sharon is a lovely girl. She had dated Chris Panula for a long time.
• Carl is extremely bright, but he's had his problems socializing with the other boys.
• He seemed to improve since he's been seeing Dr. Nardi at City Hospital (Z).

Talk to Chris Panula, student

• Sharon broke up with me because I made some stupid remarks about her brother.
• Well, you know, he always was a little strange. He even sees a shrink.

Stone's Drug Store

Talk to Melvin Stone, owner

• Yes, Lisa Fenton had a prescription for Valium.

Talk to David Lippman, pharmacist

• Yes, Lisa Fenton had a prescription for Valium.
• It's funny how both she and Carl need tranquilizers to cope. I guess being high-strung runs in the family.

Go through the prescription records

• Dr. Reznick (P) had written a Valium prescription for Lisa. Carl had one for Thorazine written by Dr. Nardi (Z).

The Police Station

Read the autopsy report

• Death was caused by drowning.
• Her body contained enough Thorazine mixed with brandy to cause unconsciousness and possibly death.

Read the lab report

• The paper cup contained enough Valium to kill an elephant.
• The stain on the patio was made by spilt brandy.
• There was no trace of Thorazine in the brandy on the bar.
• The shard of broken glass came from a brandy snifter which contained both brandy and a large dose of Thorazine.

Dr. Reznick's Office

Interview Dr. Reznick

• Lisa felt she needed something to calm her. I agreed, and prescribed Valium.
• I don't believe she was suicidal. I would never have given her Valium if I thought she was.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

The Telcher Chemical Plant

Interview Keith Sculley, chemist

• I haven't seen her since she's been back. I called her yesterday, but she refused to meet me anywhere.
• She asked me not to call her anymore. What she wanted now was a husband and a family.
• Hey, we had our fun, but it didn't mean anything. If she didn't want to see me again, there are plenty of other women who would.
• I watched T.V. alone last night. I watched the Yankees lose, seven to two.

Interview Thelma Rice, executive V.P.

• Dr. Fenton met Lisa when he was teaching college. She was one of his students.
• He was thirty-seven and she was twenty. He married her because she was expecting Sharon.
• The University fired him and we hired him. His morals are his own business and he is a brilliant researcher.
• He presently holds three patents that have made him very wealthy.
• Of course, money and brains aren't everything. Not with the way Lisa carried on, or with Carl's school problems. He must have seen Carl's guidance counselor a dozen times last year.

City Hospital

Interview Dr. Martin Nardi, psychiatrist

• Carl hated his mother. Any improvement over the last few months is directly related to her having run off.
• He's always felt that other boys were whispering about her, or knew about her. It made him very uncomfortable about being with them.
• After she left, he told me he felt his whole life had opened up. No more talk behind his back and a good family life at home.
• The last thing in the world he would want is his mother home and as an accepted part of the family.
• I believe his mother was now ready to settle down and try to become a part of the family structure.

Interview Dr. Gilbert Frankel, chief of surgery

• There are several small pieces of wood imbedded in his head.
• Poplar refused to cooperate; his wife has been getting a check for $600 every month while he's been in jail.

Case #7: Theo Demarcus, Undercover Cop (Starting Point: The Church of St. Peter)

The Post Office

Talk to Sal Tunny, office manager

• Beau's a good worker. He hasn't so much as gone to the bathroom all day.

Interview Beau Mitchem, mail sorter

• Somebody's been pulling your leg. I don't know the first thing about robberies or fences.

Check out Mitchem's locker

• You find some of the loot from the robbery in a parcel marked "P.O. Box 660" at the Post Office (G).

Liebman's Jewelry Store

Talk to Brad Phillips, employee

• They got away with a lot of stuff. It's a good thing Mrs. Liebman is insured.

Talk to Freida Liebman, owner

• We lost over $6,000 worth of rings, chains and watches.

Interview Ryan Kelly, bookkeeper

• I heard about what happened. I just wish there was something I could tell you that would help.

Study a display case

• The glass is all smashed in. All the contents have been taken.

Check the back door

• It had been expertly picked after the alarm had been disconnected.

The Police Station

Call Cpt. Parker, Robbery

• Theo Demarcus was working the Warehouse (V) undercover because they'd had a rash of robberies over there.
• We managed to pick up their inside man, Dennis Poplar. He'd been working there over four years.
• Poplar refused to cooperate; his wife has been getting a check for $600 every month while he's been in jail.
• Theo let it be known that he needed some quick cash and wasn't too particular how he earned it.
• Last week we got lucky. Beau Mitchem, a postal worker (G) approached him with a deal to rip off the warehouse.
• As it turned out, they decided to cut him in on a different deal. It went down last night at Liebman's Jewelry Store (J).
• Now, we still want the two other guys in the gang and their fence, but we want whoever killed Demarcus more. He was a good cop.

Call Turk, your pet stool pigeon

• The talk is, your man was taken out 'cause someone thought he was a stoolie.
• So, this is my last call until you come up with some more bread.

Read the autopsy report

• Demarcus was killed by a long, thin blade, probably a stiletto.

Read the lab report

• The button is the type commonly used for the sleeves of blazers.
• It was probably ripped off the murderer's sleeve by Demarcus when he was stabbed.

Run a computer search through records

• Freddy "Turkey" Erikson, arrested three times for receiving stolen goods; one conviction; he served one six-year sentence.
• His latest known address is the Sinclair Towers (Y).
• He is five feet, two inches tall and weighs one-hundred-fifty pounds.
• There is no record of a fence named Jay Metuchen.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

The Warehouse

Give Hector Bigby the once-over

• Demarcus was a good worker. I would never have figured him for ripping us off.

Talk to Hector Bigby

• Sure, I've been approached. Anybody who complains about money is.
• He said if I changed my mind I should call Belman's Garage (W), and ask for Rodriguez. I don't know if that's his real name or not.

Look at Bigby's car

• You find some of the loot from the robbery in a parcel marked "P.O. Box 660" at the Post Office (G).

Belman's Gas Station

Talk to Freddy Belman, owner, day man

• Rodriguez has been working all day. He's already finished five cars since nine this morning.

Talk to Mikel Quadroponi, mechanic

• I don't know about no robbery.
• I don't know nothing about nobody knocking off no snitch. And I don't care.

Check out the garage

• You find some of the loot from the robbery in a parcel marked "P.O. Box 660" at the Post Office (G).

Sinclair Towers

Talk to Cindy Jordan, neighbor

• I've gone straight. I'm clean. If you like, check out the apartment. You won't find anything here.

Talk to Tony Amici, the doorman

• Mr. Erikson was out all morning. He just got home, about a half-hour ago.

Go through the desk

• A navy blazer is hung over the back of a chair.
• The right sleeve is missing one of the three small gold buttons with an anchor on it.
• The remaining two match the one found in Demarcus fist.

The Church of St. Peter

Talk to Father Brown

• He entered the confessional, and said, "Forgive me Father, for I have sinned."
• I heard a soft click, somebody said something, then a grunt or sigh. I asked him to go on, but he didn't answer.
• After a few moments, I thought I heard a groan. I slid open the grate to see if anything was wrong.
• I found the poor soul dead, stabbed through the heart.

Talk to Millicent Pierce, organist

• I think I saw the whole thing. A short, fat man walked to the confessional, opened it and leaned in.
• I heard him say something like, "Excuse me," or "I'm sorry." Anyway, he backed out, turned and left.
• I think I saw him put something in his pocket as he was leaving.
• I think I'd be able to identify him if I saw him again.

Case #8: Walter Kent, Gangster (Starting Point: The Police Station)

Roebuck's Flower Shop

Talk to Maria Roebuck

• My first husband, Johann Greenwich, had discovered a chemical catalyst that made Telcher rich.
• My first husband was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
• Telcher was a thief. He talked me into selling him my husband's shares in Telcher Chemical, then introduced the new catalyst and made a fortune.
• Telcher got rich by swindling me, but I don't care now that I have Lawrence and the shop.

Talk to Lawrence Roebuck, owner

• I married Maria soon after her husband died. I adopted her son, Malcolm, a couple of months later.

Look over the office

• A picture of Malcolm Greenwich Roebuck graduating college hangs on the wall.

Examine the delivery van

• The tire pattern is different from that found at the scene.

The Police Station

Call Lt. Sotomayer, Vice

• Kent started with a small numbers operation.
• He soon branched out into loan sharking and selling protection to local merchants.
• When I sent him up, he gave his bonebreaker, Wee Willie Nelson, the loan sharking operation.
• His big brain, Perry Olson, got the numbers and Vaughn "Viper" Rozzelli got the protection racket.
• He got ten to fifteen in Attica. It figures they let him out in eight.

Call Turk, your pet stool pigeon

• I hear Kent's been out for two weeks. He'd been making waves. He wanted to take back control of his operations.
• Naturally, Wee Willie, Viper and Olson weren't too thrilled with the idea.
• Any of them could have knocked him off.
• Course my bet is it wasn't Wee Willie. He would have just squashed him. He ain't the type to use no gun.
• Wee Willie hangs out at the Warehouse (V), Olson is usually shooting pool at Guancial's (AA) and Rozzelli operates out of his apartment.

Read the autopsy report

• Kent was shot with a .22 caliber gun.

Read the lab report

• Whoever shot Kent, shot him from a position directly in front and slightly above, as if he was standing right in front of him.
• We have established this from the angle of the entry wounds and the powder burns on Kent's shirt.

Run a computer search through records

• William "Wee Willie" Nelson; fourteen arrests; three convictions, two for assault, one for extortion; six feet, three inches tall; two-hundred-fifty pounds.
• Perry Olson, CPA, no arrests; suspected Numbers King; Sgt. in U.S. Army in Korea.
• Vaughn "Viper" Rozzelli; no arrest, has a reputation for being smart and mean; suspected of extorting protection money from local merchants.
• Rozzelli lives at the Garden Apartments (Q).

The News Herald

Interview John Bowman, the editor

• I've seen Rozzelli's temper. He really is a viper. Of course, Wee Willie is no bargain either.

Interview Frank Connors, ace reporter

• I was with Olson almost all night, from around eight to ten. I was trying to interview him.
• He's smart as a whip, articulate, imaginative and didn't tell me a damn thing.

The Garden Ápartments

Question Vaughn Rozzelli

• I heard Walter was killed sometime around nine last night. By then, I was already having a late dinner at the Restaurant on the Park (R).
• I must have arrived around eight-fifteen. I had the day's special, Beef Wellington.

Go through the coats in the entrance closet

• There is a red ticket stub from the Twin Cinema Theaters in one pocket.

Examine the car in the carport

• There is a .22 caliber revolver in the glove compartment.

Restaurant In The Park

Talk to Wilma Jackson, cashier

• Oh sure. Mr. Rozzelli was here last night. But I don't know what time he got here.
• Wait a minute. It must have been after nine, because Brenda, one of his regular waitresses, had already left.

Speak to Brenda O'Connor, waitress

• Mr. Rozzelli is one of our regulars. But I don't remember seeing him last night.
• Of course, I went off duty at nine, and he might have come in after I left.

Examine the menu

• Last night's special was Beef Wellington.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

The Warehouse

Give Hector Bigby the once-over

• I was playing a few friendly hands of poker with Vince Guancial at his place (AA).
• The game must have started around eight-thirty. It didn't break up until after one.

Talk to Hector Bigby

• Nelson is a vicious, dumb animal. His specialty is thumb-breaking.

Speak to Lester Fielding, loading dock boss

• I wouldn't touch any of Nelson's money. It's too expensive.

The Twin Cinema Theaters

Interview Stanley Frost, manager

• Dennis Rudolf found Mr. Kent after the theater had emptied out while he was cleaning up.
• He must have been shot during one of the shooting scenes in the film.

Talk to Leslie Tonne, ticket seller

• Last night's tickets were red.

Talk to Dennis Rudolf, cleaning man

• Yes, I found the body. It was slumped in the seat. At first, I thought he was asleep, but then I saw the blood.

Check the ticket color for last night

• Last night's tickets were red.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Vincent Guancial, owner

• Yeah, Wee Willie was here last night. He arrived around eight, had a few drinks, then played poker all night.
• I wish he hadn't. I lost over $320 to him.

Question Perry Olson

• I spent last night in the company of Frank Conners, ace reporter. He was trying to get me to incriminate myself.
• I wouldn't worry too much about who killed Walter Kent. He was no loss to humanity.
• I like pool. There's no luck involved, just vectors and skill. It's a good game if you have a mathematical turn of mind.

Watch Olson shoot pool

• He shoots an excellent, but mechanical, game.

Case #9: Wendy Fletcher, Barmaid (Starting Point: The Police Station)

The Municipal Building

Interview Donald Quaat

• Mr. Fletcher was very unhappy with the outcome of our custody suit.
• He felt a weekend visitation once a month wasn't enough.
• I heard him say, if the law couldn't help him, he'd have to help himself.
• They got away with a lot of stuff. It's a good thing Mrs. Liebman is insured.

Interview Judge Bruce Tanner

• I remember the case well. I awarded custody of the little girl to Mrs. Fletcher. The father seemed quite bitter and angry about it.

Review trial records

• They indicate an ugly divorce and vicious custody fight.

Texas Construction, Inc.

Talk to Art Fletcher

• I can't believe Wendy's dead. And killed for no good reason, an insane reason.

Interview Roy Bowman, chief engineer

• Art Fletcher is one of the best demolition men I've ever worked with. He's a real artist.
• When he's working a building site, I know he'll get the charge exactly right. I don't always agree with his choices, but he's usually right.

Examine construction site records

• Bowman's reports indicate that on two separate occasions, Fletcher used one stick more Tovex than Bowman thought was needed.
• In both cases, the explosions went off as Fletcher predicted, not as Bowman expected.
• It was almost as though there was one stick less than Fletcher claimed in both explosions.

The Police Station

Call Lt. Sotomayer, Vice

• I'd check out Solly Weintrub and Ted Buono. They're both bookies in the same area as Guancial.
• Although to be honest, I can't see either of them trying a move like this.

Call Turk, your pet stool pigeon

• I hear two names, Ted Buono and Solly Weintraub.
• The word I get is, they are both laying low waiting to see what happens next.

Read the lab report

• Wendy Fletcher's car was blown up with two sticks of Tovex, an explosive usually used for construction.
• In the last fews weeks, there have been no reports of stolen Tovex.
• Whoever did it was an expert. The Tovex was placed perfectly, for maximum effect.
• The note to Guancial was made from words cut out of the News Herald and glued to a cheap, untraceable paper.

Run a computer search through records

• Ted Buono, suspected bookie, lives at the Sinclair Towers (Y).
• Solomon "Solly" Weintraub, suspected bookie, lives at the Garden Apartments (Q).

The Garden Ápartments

Question Solly Weintraub

• Are you a mishugana . . . a crazy person? I'm a small time bookie. I don't go around blowing up young girls.
• You've got to be some kind of animal to do a thing like that.

Talk to Charles Doman, the handyman

• Sure. I sometimes bet with Solly. Heck of a nice guy. Always smiles, win or lose.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Sloan & Williams Law Office

Interview Roland Williams

• It was one of the worst custody fights I've ever seen. They really gouged at each other.
• They were both out for blood. And they both got it.
• Art Fletcher used Donald Quaat as his lawyer.
• Quaat's usually at the Municipal Building (I) this time of day.

Examine the files

• They indicate an ugly divorce and vicious custody fight.
• Art Fletcher used Donald Quaat as his lawyer.

Sinclair Towers

Question Ted Buono

• Hey, sure I make book. But I'm small time.
• When I'm ready to expand my operations, I'll do it peaceful-like. There ain't no reason to blow people up.
• I'll tell you something, I've got a daughter in college. If I found out who could do that to an innocent kid before you do .. .
• I'll make sure he can never do it again. Not to my kid.

Talk to Tony Amici, the doorman

• Sure, I sometimes bet with Ted. A nice guy. Pays up on time, and with a smile, too.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Sal Madalena, bartender

• She was a good kid. A little tough on Art, her ex, maybe, but solid, you know?
• It's funny. I introduced her to Art. He used to come in all the time, until the divorce.
• He's a heck of a nice guy. You wonder why two nice people like that end up divorced. A real shame.
• Jeez! I can't believe anybody would want to move in on Vince so bad he'd start blowin' people up. Innocent people. It's crazy.

Talk to Vincent Guancial, owner

• I have a few ideas on who might have been responsible.
• Of course, I never figured any of them were this crazy.
• Anyway, I'm not going to start naming names. Find them out for yourself. That's what they pay you for.

Talk to Elana Egan, barmaid

• Poor Wendy. Things were finally beginning to go right for her.
• Ever since she hired Ronald Williams as her lawyer (T).
• He got her divorced from that creep Art. He works for Texas Construction, Inc. (L). I don't know what he does there.
• And she'd just been awarded custody of Risa, her three-year-old.
• She was even thinking of going back to school and just like that, it's all gone.

Case #10: Jeremy Todd, Loser (Starting Point: Sinclair Towers)

Stone's Drug Store

Talk to Melvin Stone, owner

• A man got out and drove off in the black car. The one that had been parked illegally.
• And if he was home all day, why did he insist that Scott had to be there at two P.M.? He was very insistent about that.

Roebuck's Flower Shop

Talk to Maria Roebuck

• Naturally I love Lawrence and might even lie for him, but I don't have to. He was really here all day.

Talk to Lawrence Roebuck, owner

• Yes, I was being sued by Jeremy Todd. Wayne Sloan (T) was handling the case for me.
• I was here all day. I never left the shop.
• I was in the office, so anyone who might have come in wouldn't have seen me.

The Police Station

Read the autopsy report

• The knife penetrated the left ventricle of his heart. He died at noon, give or take fifteen minutes.
• He had terminal liver cancer and the cancer had already started to spread throughout his body. He might have lasted another month at the most.
• He had three times the prescribed dosage of morphine in his body. He probably felt no pain when he was stabbed.
• There is no sign of a struggle no bruises, no skin under the nails.

Read the lab report

• There were no fingerprints in the house other than Todd's.
• Most of the kitchen, including the phone hanging off the hook, were wiped clean of all fingerprints.
• A check on the prescription shows that Todd had only taken one pill at a time until this morning when he took three.

Dr. Reznick's Office

Interview Dr. Reznick

• He had inoperable liver cancer.
• I had prescribed the morphine pills for the pain. I also arranged for him to see Dr. Frankel at the Hospital (Z) for chemotherapy.
• He was also seeing Dr. Nardi at City Hospital (Z) for psychotherapy—to help him deal with his illness.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Sloan & Williams Law Office

Interview Wayne Sloan

• Todd and Roebuck were the best of friends until Todd lent Roebuck $10,000 to open his flower shop (K).
• Todd's lawsuit was a farce. The money was to be repaid over four years, $2,500 a year. There was never a repayment on demand clause, because there were no clauses! It was all done as an oral agreement.
• In any event, Todd was offered a chance to buy into a computer business and suddenly needed his money back.
• Lawrence had already used it to buy the store so he didn't have it to give back to Todd.
• Just today, around noon, I called Lawrence at his store. I spent a good half hour explaining why Todd had no case.

Interview Roland Williams

• Todd and Roebuck were the best of friends until Todd lent Roebuck $10,000 to open his flower shop (K).
• We had a good case. And if we won, Todd would have put Roebuck right out of business.
• Todd contended that one of the conditions of the loan was repayment on demand in case Todd needed the money in a hurry, which he did.
• Todd had an opportunity to invest in a small computer company. He would have been a multi-millionaire by now, if Roebuck had returned the money as promised.

The Warehouse

Give Hector Bigby the once-over

• Yeah, I saw Todd lying dead in his kitchen with a knife in his chest.
• When I got to his apartment, the door was open. I went in and saw him dead.
• I didn't touch nothin' and I wasn't about to wait for you guys to show up and hassle me. So I beat it.
• He owed me $8,797.53. That's worth maybe two broken kneecaps and an arm, you know? Hey, I was only kidding. I'd never do nothin' like that.

Sinclair Towers

Talk to Cindy Jordan, neighbor

• I was home sick today . . . and my bedroom shares a wall with his kitchen.
• Well, these walls are so thin, I could hear everything that was going on in his apartment.
• Anyway, all morning he played one record after another, then at around a quarter to twelve, he stopped.
• Then I heard him laugh, and he yelled something like, "I only wish I could live to see you hang, Opal." It was something like that.

Talk to Tony Amici, the doorman

• Around one or one-thirty, this big guy comes in. Says I should tell Mr. Todd that Wee Willie is here to see him.
• I recognized him. He's that loan shark who works the Warehouse (V).
• When I called on the house phone, it was busy. The big guy says he's going upstairs now; he wasn't going to wait.
• The guy is around six foot, three inches and built like a house. I ain't about to argue, right?
• Anyway, about ten minutes later, he comes back down and tells me I should forget I ever seen him.

Look over the kitchen

• Today's date is circled on the calendar. "Roebuck at noon wants to settle-fat chance!" is pencilled in.

Go through the desk

• There is a letter to Roland Williams (T) in which he discusses a lawsuit against Lawrence Roebuck and his Florist Shop (K).
• The letter expresses confidence they'll win the lawsuit and put Roebuck out of business.

City Hospital

Interview Dr. Martin Nardi, psychiatrist

• Jeremy believed that he was a failure, and blamed Lawrence Roebuck for it.
• He hated Lawrence Roebuck and would do anything to hurt him. But from what I could see, Roebuck didn't hate Todd. Roebuck had no reason to.
• He was probably his own worst enemy. He used to swear that when the pain became really severe, he'd kill himself.

Interview Dr. Gilbert Frankel, chief of surgery

• Whoever killed him, wasted his time. He was a dead man already. He never would have lasted more than another month.
• He had inoperable liver cancer.
• We were trying chemotherapy, but frankly, he didn't have a prayer. And he knew it.

Case #11: Leonora Tibbet, Socialite (Starting Point: City Hospital)

The Post Office

Talk to Sal Tunny, office manager

• She was an old woman with a bad heart. Why would I take a chance on facing a murder rap when all I had to do was wait?
• Sure she was rich, but I'm in no rush to inherit.
• Johnny, Penny and I were her only living relatives. Maybe Johnny or Penny knocked her off.
• I visited her fairly often, but I didn't go to the Hospital today.
• I was still home when she was killed. I hadn't started my shift yet.

Interview Beau Mitchem, mail sorter

• Sal was here at about five after eight for the eight o'clock shift. He arrived about ten minutes after me.
• You know, he quit last week when they thought his aunt was going to die. He took the job back when she recovered.
• I hear he got himself pretty deep in the hole with a deposit on a summer place which he had to forfeit on.

Look over Tunny's office

• There is a notice on his desk informing him that he has forfeited his $2,000 deposit on the house.
• Adrienne told me that once, when she was posing for Eiserson, he got so mad, he threatened to wring her neck.

The Municipal Building

Talk to Lorna Dunn, secretary

• Two weeks ago, Penny's aunt had a heart attack. Then, Penny started to make plans. She decided to quit and take a long cruise.
• With all the money she was going to inherit, she was never going to have to work again.
• Then her aunt started getting better. I wouldn't say Penny was disappointed, but . . . she wasn't as happy as she might have been.

Go through Penny Marlowe's desk

• There is a ticket for a five-month cruise around the world.

The Police Station

Read the autopsy report

• The body showed signs of oxygen deprivation.
• She was killed by four blows to the head with the metal bedpan.

Read the lab report

• Combining the oxygen deprivation with the make-up on the pillowcase makes for a pretty good case of attempted murder by smothering.
• The only fingerprints on the metal bedpan belong to Penny Marlowe.

The Garden Ápartments

Question Penny Marlowe

• I got home from work, ate a quick dinner and went to see Aunt Lee.
• When I got to her room, I saw her lying there, dead. I guess I screamed.
• Then I ran to her. I grabbed the bedpan, which was resting against her head, and threw it onto the floor. I have no idea why I did that.
• She was dead. It was horrible. Then, the doctor came in. He gave me a sedative and sent me home in a cab.
• I didn't see anyone in the hallway when I arrived. And her room was empty when I went in.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Belman's Gas Station

Talk to Johnny Carman, night man

• She was an old woman with a bad heart. Why would I take a chance on facing a murder rap when all I had to do was wait?
• Sure she was rich, but I'm in no rush to inherit.
• I visited her fairly often, but I didn't go to the Hospital today.
• I was still home when she was killed. I hadn't started my shift yet.

Talk to Freddy Belman, owner, day man

• You know, he quit last week when they thought his aunt was going to die. He took the job back when she recovered.
• He was pretty upset when they took his new Maserati back. It was one beautiful car.

City Hospital

Interview Dr. Howard Keel, cardiologist

• Miss Tibbet had had a severe heart attack two weeks ago, but she was making a surprisingly good recovery, especially considering her age.
• We took her out of intensive care last week. Yesterday, we changed her status to "satisfactory."
• She was often visited by her two nephews and her niece. I believe they were her only living relatives.
• You'd have to check her file for their names and addresses.
• When I got to the room, her niece was hysterical. I gave her a sedative and put her in a cab for home.

Talk to Judy Abromovitz, nurse

• The call signal went on and I must have answered it within two or three minutes.
• When I got to the room, poor Lee was dead on the bed, the bedpan still lying next to her head.
• I ran to the nurse's station to call for help, then I heard screaming coming from the room.
• I ran back to the room and found Miss Marlowe staring at her aunt and screaming.
• She ran to her aunt, grabbed the bedpan and threw it on the floor. Then, she started to cry.
• Dr. Keel arrived and gave her a sedative. Then he sent her home. I'm sure she's there now.

Talk to Franklyn Cleaver, orderly

• She was a terrific lady. I couldn't believe she was eighty-two years old. Her mind was as sharp as a tack.
• She had her hairdresser in twice this week. She always put on make-up first thing in the morning. She really took care of herself.
• I used to help her keep her drawers and closet neat. Everything had to be exactly in place.
• Her shirts, underwear and stockings had to be folded just so; her nightgowns and coat hung neatly in the center of the closet.

Examine the room

• All her nightgowns and her coat are crushed to one side of her closet.
• There are large smears of make-up and lipstick on one side of her pillow.
• A metal bedpan is lying on the floor, under the window. It is dented.

Question Perry Olson

• Her nephew, John Carman, works the night shift at Belman's Gas Station (W).
• Her niece, Penny Marlowe, works at the Municipal Building (I) and lives in the Garden Apartments (Q).
• Her other nephew, Sal Tunny, works at the Post Office (G).

Case #12: Josh Giggle, Press Room Foreman (Starting Point: The Park)

The Police Station

Read the autopsy report

• Giggle died from a heavy blow to the head with a piece of wood.
• There are several small pieces of wood imbedded in his head.

Read the lab report

• The branch had some hair stuck to one end. The hair matches that of Josh Giggle.
• On the end used as a handle, away from the hair, there is a trace of printer's ink on the wood.
• Judging from the angle of the blow, the murderer is right-handed.

The News Herald

Interview John Bowman, the editor

• Josh Giggle was the center of quite a furor this past week.
• Our old foreman in the press room, Phillip Ball, fired Giggle two days ago. Giggle was popular with his fellow workers.
• So, they held a wildcat strike. When we investigated the case, we discovered that Giggle was fired because Ball didn't like him.
• Naturally, we re-hired Giggle. And after another meeting with the men, we decided to demote Ball.
• We ended up giving Giggle the job as foreman. Everyone seemed pleased, except Ball, of course.

Interview Wally Porter, pressman

• Ball had it coming. He was power happy. He was always abusing his position. Firing Josh was just the last straw.
• After his demotion, he quit. Now he sits around his place in the Garden Apartments (Q) and broods. With his seniority, he'll get a new job pretty quick, if he decides he wants to.
• What surprised me was Joel Stelbright's attitude. He was next in line for the foreman's job. I was sure he'd be furious.
• But he didn't seem to mind Josh getting the job. In fact, he's the one who su ested we throw a party at Guancial's (AA) to celebrate.

Interview Joel Stelbright, pressman

• Ball was a lousy foreman and had it coming.
• Josh was a good man. He deserved a shot at being foreman.
• Of course, I'm a good man, too. And I also deserved a shot at being foreman. In fact, I was really next in line. I should have gotten the job.
• But, these things happen. Anyway, there's always a next time.

Watch the pressroom at work

• All the men in the press room are right-handed.
• Stelbright takes out a pack of Marlboro cigarettes and offers one to Porter. Porter declines.
• At the end of their shift, each man's hands are covered with the printer's ink. Washing doesn't get it all off.

The Garden Ápartments

Question Phillip Ball

• I was in the park (S) when Giggle got his. In fact, I saw it happen. I was on my way to an early dinner at the Restaurant on the Park (R).
• I saw Joel Stelbright step out from behind some trees and bash Giggle over the head with a club.
• I always knew he wanted my job. I guess Giggle getting it was just too much for him.
• I didn't call the police because, after all Giggle put me through, I didn't care what happened to him.

Interview Rhonda Rheim, the manager

• Sure, Mr. Ball's got a nasty temper. Once, he almost hit our handyman with a rake after he stepped on it.

Talk to Charles Doman, the handyman

• Ball? Yeah, I know the guy. He has a mean temper.
• Now, I'm not saying he didn't get hurt, but he almost brained me with it before he returned the rake to me.

Look Phillip Ball over while you question him

• While you question him, he gets himself a beer. He is left-handed.

Go through the apartment

• There is a carton of Carlton cigarettes on the kitchen table.
• There are Carlton butts in all the ashtrays.

The Park

Talk to 'Indian' Brave

• I don't talk to pigs!

Talk to Francis Keaton, hot dog vendor

• I saw the regular heavy traffic for that time of day.
• Most of the News Heralders come through the park around that time of day. They're all on their way to Guancial's Bar (AA) for a quick beer before going home.

Interview Hugh Lathem, park worker

• I ran over to check it out, and found this guy dead on the ground.

Search the grounds near the body

• Behind some trees, right behind the body, there is an area with a number of half-smoked cigarettes and butts on the ground.
• The cigarettes were all Marlboros. There are also some small branches, possibly broken off the larger branch already found.
• It's possible the murderer waited here for his victim to show up.

Guancial's Bar

Talk to Sal Madalena, bartender

• Yeah! Most of the press room came in last night.
• They told me they were going to throw a party for Josh Giggle.
• They said not only did he get re-hired, but they made him foreman to boot.
• The only guy who didn't seem too happy was this guy Stelbright. He just sat smoking and looking glum.

Talk to Elana Egan, barmaid

• Joel Stelbright? Yeah, he stayed on late last night. When Josh didn't show up for the party, everyone left except him.
• By the time he did leave, I think he had a few too many.
• Joel told me the foreman's job was as good as his, even if no one else knew it yet.