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Jun-26-2013 03:40

You have til 9am July 1, Sleuth Server time... oh yeah there IS a prize. A reasonable 'bragging rights' item of some variety.

Please post your answers below. You might want to hold off posting for as long as possible so people can't copy your answers, or you might want to be philanthropic and help your fellow sleuths out... your choice :)

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How Sleuthy are you?
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WHO?

Cryptic Sleuths

These are the names of famous Detectives in Literature or TV.

1. The King is a Dog.
2. Michael's short to be using tools.
3. Ronald's wife liked to doodle.
4. He's just joined the Monastery.
5. A fiddler who howled at the moon.
6. My US Uncle used to dig for a living.
7. Theyre robust lads, aren't they.
8. His clerical shirts were probably beige.

WHERE?

9. Writer come Detective Jessica Fletcher is based in which fictional town?
AND in which story for the big screen (though it was probaby straight to DVD :) ) did Angela Landsbury portray Miss Marple?
10. Amelia Peabody Emerson has most of her adventures in which Country?
AND What is the name of the character that appears to Amelia in her dreams to offer her advice?
11. In which city is the Big Sleep set?
AND what's the name of the sequel to the Big Sleep? (not written by Chandler)

WHAT?

What do these Authors / Fictional Detectives have in common?

12. Characters: Hercule Poirot, Thomas Magnum, Thomson and Thomson?
13. Characters: Flambeau, Monsieur Lecoq, Eugène François Vidocq
14. Authors: Anna Katherine Green, GK Chesterton, Patricia Wentworth.
15: Carter Dickson, Ellery Queen, Bartholomew Gill


Sorry some these you just can't gooooooogle. :) GOOD LUCK

Jun-29-2013 02:07

Doing my best not to read the previous answers...

1. Googled this one, which probably counts as cheating, but it was bugging me. I found a series called 'Inspector Rex'.
2. ??
3. Nancy Drew
4. That TV guy called Monk. Can't remember his first name.
5. Nero Wolfe
6. Sam Spade
7. The Hardy Boys
8. Father Brown

9. Cabot Cove, The Mirror Crack'd
10. Egypt, don't know so I'll take a wild guess at Anubis (!)
11. Really ought to know but don't. Chicago?

12. The only thing that comes to mind is something to do with Belgium: Hercule Poirot was Belgian and Thomson & Thompson are characters in Tintin, which was created by a Belgian. No idea where Magnum would come into it, though.
13. 'They're French?
14. ??
15. ??

Nice quiz, SS!

Jun-29-2013 03:01

WHO?

1. ?
2. Mike Hammer
3. ?
4. Adrian Monk ?
5. Nero Wolfe
6. Sam Spade
7. The Hardy Boys
8. Brother Cadfael ?

WHERE?

9. Cabot Cove, "The Mirror Crack'd"
10. Egypt, ?
11. Los Angeles, ?

WHAT?

12. They all had moustaches
13. They all worked on both sides of the law
14. ?
15. They all used pen names


Thanks for reviving the pub quizz, Squirrel!

Jun-29-2013 05:13

I cannot BELIEVE I didn't get *****spoiler spoiler spoiler***** The Hardy Boys!!! I see Cordy's written down The Hardy Boys, and I'm like, what? there was nothing hardy-boy related here...so dumb! One of the only things I actually knew kinda in-depth, and didn't just pull out of a random corner of my brain, and I go and lose it :P

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Jun-29-2013 15:23

Well played Cordelia.
I couldn't get past Ronald McDonald!

Jun-30-2013 21:37

He took me a while to realise that's a spoiler Bela :) Secret No. 1 is secret after all :)

Jun-30-2013 21:37

"Heh", I mean.

Jul-1-2013 00:51

1. Rex the Wonder Dog (??)
2. Mike Hammer (??)
3. Nancy Drew.
4. Adrian Monk (??)
5. Nero Wolfe (??)
6. Sam Spade
7. Hardy Boys (??)
8. Father Brown

9. Cabot Cove, Maine. The Mirror Crack'd.
10. Egypt. Abdullah, her reis.
11. San Francisco (??). Perchance to Dream (??).

12. All wear mustaches.
13. All were criminals and later detectives, and all had French names.
14. All are pseudonyms, and all were pioneers of mystery/detective fiction.
15. All are pen names or pseudonyms.

Jul-1-2013 00:53

Sorry, should've signed that.... ;-)

Breit

Jul-1-2013 04:04

Oops...I forgot the spoiler signs too, huh? Now, it's just waiting till 9 am server time. I'll clap enthusiastically here too, *provided* you have a tie-breaker in place...you do have one, don't you? Anyway, Breit seems to have got it all, a Klutz wins...