Characters & Places
This French detective mouse is the main character of the story and lives in Paris.
Marcel
The person whose flat was broken into while he was away at the cinema.
Proffesor Barton
The color of the dress worn by the mysterious female thief.
Red
The specific London airport where the thief was planning to catch her flight.
The Heathrow Airport
The date in November on which the entire story and the fireworks night take place.
November 5th
Marcel's friend who lives in a comfortable flat in Knightsbridge, London.
Henry
The number of the flat used by the thief to break through the wall into the professor's home.
Flat 40
The paper object on the table under the yellow lamp where the flight information was written.
Notepad
The name of the super-fast, supersonic airplane the woman was planning to board.
Concorde
The traditional British holiday celebrated with fireworks on this specific evening.
Guy Fawkes Day (or Bonfire Night)
The famous university city where Professor Barton originally found the hidden Shakespeare letters.
Oxford
The object that had a large, smoky hole blown through the back of it.
The safe
The exact time written next to the flight information on the thief's note.
7:20 (PM)
The city in the United States where the thief wanted to fly with the letters.
New york
The level of this Penguin Readers book, indicating it has a basic vocabulary of around 300 words.
Level 1
The famous, large department store located right in front of Henry’s station in London.
Harrods
The country where the real owners of Flat 40 were spending their holiday.
Spain
The tool Marcel pulled out of his coat pocket to make a hole in the thief's bag.
A small knife
The fast public transport system the mice used to get from Knightsbridge to the airport.
Underground
The time of the evening when Marcel's train originally arrived at the station in London.
5:00 PM
The place where the precious letters are donated and displayed for the public at 10 o'clock the next morning.
The British Museum
The historical figures to whom the stolen letters were originally written by William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's son.
The object with headphones that the woman was using, which prevented her from hearing the mice.
Walkman
The reason the thief couldn't catch the mice after she tripped over a fat man's bags.
She crashed into a passenger
The amount of time (in minutes) the mice had left to save the letters when they arrived at Heathrow at 6:40 PM.
40 minutes