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7 Characteristics of a Mystery
The Clues
The Characters
Something's Fishy
The Small Stuff
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This person makes the detective look smarter and brighter.
What is a foil?
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The odd requests made of Mrs. Hunter.
What is she must cut her hair and wear a blue dress while sitting in a chair in the living room.
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The woman who asked Sherlock Holmes for help.
Who is Violet Hunter.
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The reason Mr. Rucastle offers Mrs. Hunter a lot of money.
What is she is a perfect match for his daughter and wants to make sure she takes the job.
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This is what Violet Hunter is doing now.
What is she is the head of a private school?
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Clues put in the story to throw off the detective... and the reader.
What are red herrings.
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This is found locked in Ms. Hunter's drawer.
What is a coil of hair.
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The man who wants to hire Violet Hunter.
Who is Mr. Rucastle?
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The reason Mrs. Hunter must cut her hair.
What is she must fit the description of Alice Rucastle?
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This is what has happened to Alice Rucastle.
What is she ran away with Mr. Fowler, was married, and is living happily on an island where Mr. Fowler has a government job.
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This must be worthy of the attention it receives.
What is the crime.
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Mr. Ruscastle uses this explanation for the shuttered window.
What is he has taken up photography and that is his dark room.
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The woman who finally tells everyone the secret of Alice Rucastle.
Who is Mrs. Toller?
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This is what Ms. Hunter sees outside the window in the sitting room.
What is a man in a grey suit watching her.
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The name of the trees outside the house.
What are the Copper Beeches?
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These must be introduced early in the story.
What are the suspects.
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The man in the grey suit is...
What is Alice Rucastle's fiance.
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Alice Rucastle's fiance
Who is Mr. Fowler?
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This is Mr. Rucastle's reaction when he sees Ms. Hunter in the forbidden hallway.
What is his a oddly calm and then grows angry and threatens to throw her to the mastiff?
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The reason Sherlock wants to know the disposition of the child in Ms. Hunter's care.
What is his disposition gives him information about the parents?
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This must be logical and make sense.
What is the Solution?
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The odd thing Mrs. Hunter saw under the only lit door down the forbidden hallway.
What is a shadow moving.
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Mr. Rucastle's hidden daughter
Who is Alice Rucastle?
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The reason the mastiff is kept hungry.
What is Mr. Rucastle wants him to attack tresspassers.
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The reason Ms. Hunter believes that Mrs. Rucastle has a "secret sorrow".
What is she has caught Mrs. Rucastle crying silently and lost in thought with a sad look on her face, many times.