Eagle Eye Mysteries in London Solutions

Book 2

Alien Assassin

• Julia Beeswing plays the maid, Felicity Wyles.
• Felicity Wyles was very upset when the alien ate her beloved pet goldfish, Nadine.
• The alien ordered tea, not cocoa, but there is cocoa in the cup he sipped just before he died.
• Professor Deebles knew cocoa would be toxic to the alien. Felicity Wyles was the only other person he told about this.

Suspect: Julia Beeswing

Rajah’s Ruby

Read Biographies of English Writers for Rudyard Kipling.

• Macavity’s note said we could find the ruby by following this clue: A British star of India near the Scottish Scone, the man who would be king will have the Tiger’s stone. Just so!
• Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book, Just So Stories, The Man Who Would be King and many other stories and poems about India.
• Rudyard Kipling is buried at Westminster Abbey.
• The Scottish Stone of Scone is set in the coronation chair of Edward I at Westminster Abbey.

Suspect: Rudyard Kipling

Cairo Cruise

• Mr. Asim says that a fifth canopic jar, containing the mummified heart of Queen Akhenmet, is missing from the exhibit. If it is not returned by nightfall, he will take the exhibit back to Cairo.
• In the time of Akhenmet, organs like the lungs, liver and intestines were removed and sealed in four canopic jars. The heart was cleaned, then replaced inside the mummy’s body…
• Mr. Asim signed the receipt for the canopic jars himself. His records says that the box delivered to the museum contained five canopic jars.
• The wax museum’s Akhenmet display contains wax copies of the four canopic jars on display at the British Museum.

Suspect: Mr. Asim

Wax Whodunit

Edward VI ruled England after Henry VIII.

• When they hauled the spy away, he shouted, “Off with her head! Off with her head!” to the television cameras.
• The writer we know as Lewis Carroll was actually a shy mathematician named Charles Dodgson, who lived in Christ Church, Oxford, from 1851 on.
• Charles Dodgson, using the pen name Lewis Carroll, wrote the classic children’s books Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
• In Alice in Wonderland, a character named the Queen of Hearts is famous for shrieking “Off with her head!” to Alice.

Suspect: Lewis Carroll

Reticent Romeo

• The love song is titled The Color of Alison’s Eyes. The musical bars above the words are empty, but the notations C, G, E7 and D are above the bars.
• Alec is an American.
• In England, the words favour, colour, and honour are correctly spelled with a ‘u’. An American would write favor, color and honor without the ‘u’.

Suspect: Alec

Chesspiece Challenge

Go North to the British Museum.

• Peter Cliff is the bishop. He is waiting at Westminster Abbey.
• The bishop moves across the chessboard diagonally.
• The bishop on the chessboard is diagonally away from the gold pawn.

Suspect: Peter

Frustrated Falconer

112 grams is around 4 ounces.

• Ms. Bardbrook says Chelsea Sinclair helped her set up the scales at the falconry exhibition.
• Chelsea Sinclair’s animal rights group is trying to influence the United Green Alliance. She wants to make sure the Alliance doesn’t support falconers.
• Chelsea Sinclair had a round metal ball that looked like a big steel marble in her purse.
• Someone ruined the falcon’s delicate feeding program by replacing the real 75-gram weight with a 112-gram one marked 75 grams…

Suspect: Chelsea

Hampton Haunt

Take the train to Oxford from Platform 5.

• Lord Pomeroy says he recognized the ghost of Catherine Howard from her likeness at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.
• Mr. Peebles says that there is a secret door out to the garden at the end of the Royal Presence Chamber. He jammed it open today to let in the fresh air.
• Astrid says that Dr. Hadrian, a historian from Oxford, bought the pattern for the Catherine Howard dress Astrid created.
• Dr. Hadrian is writing a book about Catherine Howard, who many people have told her she resembles. She says that visiting places where Catherine lived helps her to understand Catherine’s life.

Suspect: Dr. Hadrian

Trespassing Toy

12 inches equals 30 centimeters.

• Nobody but Uncle Basil, Aunt Miranda, the security people at Chumley’s and us have seen the videotape. We, and the guilty person, are the only ones who know that a toy tiger escaped through a small window.
• To let the store cat in and out, Jules set up a ladder underneath a small window. The toy tiger escaped by climbing this ladder.
• When we mentioned Chumley’s Toy Store, Dr. Harris said that the Oxford Robotics Lab does not make robots that could fit through a small window.

Suspect: Vivien Harris

Blitz Beryls

Coded message: At the foot of the queen

• Lady Saltcoats says the yew tree in her garden was once shaped like a chesspiece.
• A picture taken in 1940 shows Roscoe standing by a tree trimmed to resemble a huge chesspiece -- a queen.
• When decoded, Roscoe’s secret message reads, “At the foot of the queen.”

Suspect: Yew Tree

Siege Skulduggery

Take the train to Kenilworth from Platform 9.

• The Bloxham Brigands say that a Professor at the University of London has made a formula vital to their plan to win the Castle Game.
• One of the Brigands claimed that even if the Derby Defenders choose to build an exact copy of Warwick Castle, “we’ll overcome them!”
• Greek Fire was only useful to attackers if they had catapults to throw the flaming stones into the castle.
• Professor Mathon has developed a formula for Greek Fire, a historical siege weapon of great power, at the University of London.

Suspect: Catapult

Standing Stones

Take the train to Salisbury from Platform 7.

• Only five people saw Lord Langley’s letter: Inspector Gage, Curator Buckleigh, Percy Tribb, Sandra Trent, and Prof. Mathon.
• The guard’s attacker only dug holes around the large rocks called the Sarsen Stones. Whatever they were looking for, they didn’t find it there.
• Lord Langley’s letter says that a priceless Celtic artifact is buried underneath the stone crowned by the midsummer sunrise.
• The Heel Stone is the stone that is crowned by the midsummer sunrise. Mr. Becker says anyone who has studied Stonehenge would know this fact. There were no holes dug around this stone.
• Sandra Trent has never studied Stonehenge. She is an expert on antique furniture.

Suspect: Sandra Trent

Pirate Puzzle

Coral Reef is the possible wreck site.

• Roger Culver witnessed the Calamity’s wreck. He says he saw two lights very close together, like fiery eyes, south of the ship just before it sank.
• Carlo Moreno witnessed the Calamity’s wreck to the north of his camp. He was on a sandy spit north and a little east of a campfire when he lit his own signal fire.
• The Coral Reef is north of both the spit of land and the mouth of the stream on Mystere Island.

Suspect: Coral Reef

Horrible Hound

Take the train to Torbay from Platform 12.

• According to Colonel Sweeney, his White Elephant outfit lost 12 of their best ponies about two months ago.
• Marissa Byrnie says her pony herd doesn’t have any foals. She says that she has exactly the same number of ponies in her herd as last year.
• According to the Crown census, Bristol lost 8 ponies, Sweeney lost 12 ponies, Byrnie gained 20 ponies and Maringh gained 24 ponies since last year…

Suspect: Ms. Byrnie

Rare Art Raider

• Jules Harper says his boss, Mr. Swift the travel photographer, is nicknamed Jules.
• The international art thief travels to foreign lands and arranges to have precious art stolen. Scotland Yard knows that he or she is connected to the travel agency Around The World In 80 Ways.
• Owen Swift traveled to many foreign countries on behalf of Around The World travel agency, and took pictures for their brochure.
• The art thief has the code name of Jules. Aunt Miranda discovered this while investigating in disguise.
• Owen Swift claims Jules doesn’t mean anything to him. He seemed to get nervous when we mentioned that name.

Suspect: Owen Swift

Phony Prevaricator

The photographer caught a train leaving at 12:15.

• Robert Page said only three liars -- Ms. Jones, Mr. O’Leary and Mr. Gregory -- were present when the publicity photo was taken. He says only one of them could have stolen the liar’s trophy.
• Officer Bardbrook says that either Mr. Wynn or Mr. Page could have stolen the trophy. Along with the three liars, that makes a total of five suspects.
• Mr. Page was upset after he didn’t win the Prevaricator’s Trophy in a lying contest. After he left the Sherlock Holmes Pub, he seemed jolly.

Suspect: Robert Page

Tricky Tusk

Find Ivory in Encyclopedia G-I.

• A sailor named John Peyton supposedly carved this unicorn horn during his whaling voyages in the 1870s.
• Josh Peyton’s unicorn horn is carved with dancing unicorns. A fine script says, “For my beloved Cheryl, the rarest of the rare. --JP.”
• The name Cheryl was invented when the name Beryl became popular, in the 1920s.

Suspect: Unicorn Horn

Panicky Playwright

• If Jules believed his play was really good, he’d have gone to Brighton, to celebrate at the Royal Pavilion.
• A letter to Jules reads, “J. -- Surely you’ve heard by now -- your play went over a bomb. --AB.” Jules gave the letter to Lyla Maddox just before he left.
• If an American says a play is “a bomb,” it means the play is a failure. If someone from Britain says “it went over a bomb,” it means the play is a big success.

Suspect: Brighton

Blood’s Bold Bauble

Charles II ruled England in 1671.

• After visiting London, the moviemaker Mr. Tony said his exciting new movie will be “a twist on the Captain Blood story! It’s a gem! It will make millions for everyone involved!”
• Dan Sibold and Emma Finley think they have been chosen by Mr. Tony to star in an upcoming movie. They said they were to be the next Errol and Olivia.
• Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland were the stars of a 1935 movie called Captain Blood. Before this movie, they were young, inexperienced actors.
• If Mr. Tony’s announcement is about a remake of the movie Captain Blood, then no one told him about the Moss’ secret ruby after all.

Suspect: Errol Flynn

Revolutionary Riches

George III ruled England in 1804.

• Mr. Page’s ancestor, John Page, died at the battle of Waterloo.
• The battle of Waterloo, fought in 1815, was when Napoleon was finally defeated by the Duke of Wellington.

Suspect: Robert Page

Professor’s Pen Pal

• One of the notebook’s entries has a pretty obvious grammatical mistake in it. Whoever wrote it doesn’t write English all that well.
• The fourth notebook entry reads, “My companion is droning on about the psychology of this place and what motivated people to build this famous stone circle. He’s dull, but I’m thrilled to finally see this ancient construction!”
• The notebook belongs to one of three people: Mr. Chrysler, a professor of architecture; Mr. Randall, a professor of psychology; or Ms. Phelps, a professor of English.
• Psychologists study the human mind and motivation, or why people do things. English professors study the English language, especially its complex rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Suspect: Prof. Chrysler

Knight Knavery

Icon on the West is Merlin’s hiding place.

• Sir Charles Armour’s coat of arms is called argent bend or.
• The metal colors in heraldry are silver and gold. Silver is called argent and gold is called or.
• One of the most important rules of heraldry is that metal colors cannot be used with other metal colors…

Suspect: Charles Armour

Sightseeing Spy

• The three suspects are Mr. Figueira, Mr. Eriksson and Ms. Beamish. One of them is a spy who did not come to Britain directly from his or her own country, but instead snuck in through France.
• Mr. Figueira showed up an hour early for a talk. He claims he forgot to set his watch when he flew to England from the Azores Islands. His watch is set one hour ahead of the actual time in Britain.
• The Azores are located one time zone west of the British Isles.
• If a country is one time zone east of you, then a clock from there will read one hour later than yours. If a country is one time zone west of you, a clock from there will read one hour earlier.

Suspect: Mr. Figueira

Envelope Espionage

Take the train to Marlford from track 4.

• In Musical Chairs, if a person sits in a certain chair, then the next person in line sits in the next chair. Either that, or the next person is left standing and is out of the game.
• The line-up of people around the table before the game started was Ved, Rae, Ned, Lady Edna, Sir Toby, Aunt Miranda. The chairs were in this order too, except Rae’s was pulled aside.
• When the music stopped the first time, Rae found herself sitting in Lady Edna’s chair, the one before Sir Toby’s in the line-up. Lady Edna herself was left standing at the end of round one.

Suspect: Ned Basset

Macavity’s Mace

• When asked about Macavity’s name, YumYum made the sign for candy or sweet.
• Six invitations to Tour 12 were sent: one each to Lord and Lady Cheswick, one to Lady Edna Saltcoats, one to Mr. and Mrs. Peregrine, one to Mr. Grimwood, and one to Mr. Basil Eagle.
• The Cheswicks say they only have one invitation. It was an official paper, with a tiny number 12 by the letter R.
• Lord and Lady Cheswick call each other nicknames like sugarplum and sweetheart.

Suspect: The Cheswicks