This is the way Billy believes successful businessmen walk and act.
What is brisk?
100
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory W. Temple.
What are the names in the Landlady's guestbook?
100
The year he was 18.
What is 1940?
100
Short in duration, extent, or length.
What is brief?
200
A very poisonous compound consisting of carbon and nitrogen with either sodium or potassium
What is cyanide?
200
This is the only thing the Landlady asks Billy to do before going to bed.
What is sign the guestbook?
200
The town Billy arrives in at the beginning of the story.
What is Bath?
200
He found them in a discount bookstore.
What are the two volumes of The Tales of Genji?
200
Very valuable or important.
What is precious?
300
A peculiar smell seemed to ______ from her person.
What is emanate?
300
The Landlady's perfect guest is like this.
What is handsome?
300
Billy Weaver stays at the Bed and Breakfast rather than this hotel.
What is The Bell and Dragon?
300
Classical Japanese literature.
What is his main interest?
300
To pay no attention to.
What is overlook?
400
The skill, activity, or job of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals so that they look like they did when they were alive.
What is taxidermy?
400
The Landlady is described as being like this common childhood toy because of the way she answers the door when Billy rings the bell.
What is a jack-in-the-box?
400
These two common household pets at first comfort Billy, then point to the fate he will share with them.
What are the dachshund and parrot? (Dog and Bird)
400
These were the only people allowed to enter Japan in those days.
What are exporters and clergymen?
400
Of or relating to beauty.
What is aesthetic?
500
This word originates in Greek mythology with a king who was condemned to eternally stand in water he could never drink under a tree with fruit just out of his reach.
What is tantalizing?
500
The landlady described Temple's body as not any of these, because "[h]is skin was just like a baby's.".
What is a blemish?
500
The tea Billy drinks has this taste, which avid mystery readers will recognize as a characteristic smell and flavor of cyanide.
What are bitter almonds?
500
In order to understand other cultures, you need to do this.
What is know your own culture first?
500
A person who has become very skilled at doing something.