Sherlock and John have been rushed off their feet this past week, with no less than five cases. With Sherlock actually tired out for once, John has had sufficient peace and quite to write all of them up for his blog, stretching some cases out into more than one article. Upon looking at the blog though, Sherlock claims that the main page and the snippets of the articles displayed there, contain enough information for an intelligent person to work out the salient details of all five cases!
From the fragments of each post, shown below, can you work out what day each case took place, the crime committed, the name of the criminal, and the 'fanciful' title given to it by John?
The answers are I the next chapter, as well as the step-by-step solution, in case you get stuck.
(Please note; if John's articles refer to a case that takes place on another day, it is one of the other cases in this puzzle, and the days are all in one week, running from Sunday to Friday.)
Days
Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Crimes
Burglary
Fraud
Identity theft
Kidnapping
Murder
Criminals
Rashid Begum
Malcolm Bennett
Walter Ponsonby
Julia Popsley
Ingrid Walsh
Blog titles
The Creepy Man
The Devil's Hand
The Disappearance of Lily France's Car Tax
The Solitary Skater
The Woman with the Twisted Wit
1. Sherlock and I dealt with a curious incident in which the home of a woman called Lily France was burgled; the man to blame took the usual items from the home, but also, strangely, the tax disc from the lady's car...Read More
2. My relaxed Sunday morning was disturbed by a call from the Yard, and six hours later we helped to bring about the arrest of a remarkably Creepy Man...Read More
3. It's odd that, though we see so few female criminals (statistically there are far fewer in existence, according to Sherlock, particularly in the fields of crime that we usually deal with) it was quite remarkable to find that two cases on consecutive days resulted in the arrest of ladies...Read More
4. Just when I thought we'd managed to have a whole week without tragedy, Friday dawned and brought with it a report of a dreadful murder...Read More
5. Those of you who are fans of comedians such as Desi Rolland and Sarah Augres may be surprised to know that their various social networking pages have not only been hacked recently, but their bank details stolen too, in a case of identity theft I've named 'The Woman with the Twisted Wit'...Read More
6. Today we dealt with a member of the rather ostentatious East London gang known as The Devil's Hand, who called himself Pit Bull. It was rather satisfying to learn, to the surprise of his cohorts, that his real name was Walter Ponsonby. He was rather a culture shock after dealing with the well-mannered Ingrid Walsh only the day before...Read More
7. Rashid Begum, whom I would never have suspected as a criminal in a million years, was caught out by Sherlock's tricks only the day after that very tangled case of fraud...Read More
8. Julia Popsley sounds like the sort of person who should be presenting Blue Peter or teaching at a nursery, not the sort who should be involved in the kidnap of a child from a park. But people don't always suit their names, and it took all of Sherlock's wits and nerve to find the little boy before he suffocated to death...Read More
Can you use these clues to put together a picture of John and Sherlock's week, and what occurred in their cases? Use logic and the process of elimination to work out how and when the people and events fit together, bearing in mind that you will end up with five unique sets of information, one for each day.
Good luck!
(Just a hint to get you started if you need it; begin by working out which day each criminal was arrested on. Then see where you can go from there.)
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I decided to celebrate my birthday by creating this logic puzzle to confuse and amuse you. I hope you enjoy it :)