[60T]>The Poisoned Poker Player[60C][60Q]>3123>MURDERER:|1. Ralph Cotson|2. Theodore Bedham|3. Josh Farrel|4. Robert Hutboy|>MOTIVE:|1. Jealousy|2. Cheating|3. Revenge|4. Cover-up|>HOW POISONED:|1. Drink|2. Cigarette|3. Ring|4. Watch|[60S]>Ralph Cotson was correctly convinced that Roger Stearns had been winning at cards by cheating.  When Stearns brought his jade ring to Cotson the jeweler for repair, Cotson contaminated the ring with cyanide poison, and waited anxiously for their next big poker game.[60A]>MURDERER: Ralph Cotson|MOTIVE: Cheating|HOW POISONED: Ring[61T]>The Gluttonous Gossip[61C][61Q]>3414>KILLER:|1. Valerie Maxwell|2. Arnold Hawke|3. Fred Thrush|4. Harold Quail|>MOTIVE:|1. Revenge|2. Insurance|3. Jealousy|4. Blackmail|>METHOD:|1. Lead poison in food|2. Poison in tobacco|3. Gassed in carriage|4. Smothered with bare hands|[61S]>Harold Quail, the driver of a food delivery carriage, was madly in love with Helen Thrush, wife of the Hotel Manager.  When Charles Maxwell exposed Harold's affair with Helen in his gossip column, Helen committed suicide.  ||One night, as Harold was  making a food delivery at the Pub, waiters carried Charles Maxwell out to the carriage to be rushed to the hospital.  Maxwell was unconscious from an orgy of overeating.  ||Filled with anger and hatred for the journalist, Harold covered the face of the unconscious man and smothered him to death with his bare hands.  [61A]>KILLER: Quail|MOTIVE: Revenge|METHOD: Smothered with bare hands.[62T]>The Well-Informed Thief[62C][62Q]>244>THIEF:|1. Rance|2. Ridley Cranapple|3. Reverend Smith|4. Harrison Beale|5. Oscar Kruger|>HOW THIEF KNEW WHERE TO LOOK:|1. Spied through window|2. Heard secrets during confession|3. Bugged the house|4. Truth serum during dental work|5. Hypnotism|[62S]>Dentist Harrison Beale was in dire financial straits due to his compulsive cardplaying, when he decided to extract Mrs. Haigh's life savings along with her tooth.  ||Beale administered a truth serum when the widow visited the dentist. While unconscious, the widow answered all of Harrison's questions concerning where she hid her life savings and when she would be away from her house.  [62A]>THIEF: Beale|HOW HE KNEW WHERE TO LOOK: Administered truth serum during dental work. [67T]>The Limping Tax Collector[67C][67Q]>3222>KILLER:|1. Matthew Lerner|2. Phillip Pupil|3. Stephen Guess|4. Eric Wang|>MOTIVE:|1. Blackmail|2. Tax fraud|3. Revenge|4. Insurance|>METHOD:|1. Poisoned dart in neck|2. Poisoned needle inside shoe|3. Poisonous insect inside shoe|4. Poisoned water in pond|[67S]>Pawnbroker Phillip Pupil was a very lucky man until tax collector Clarence Alexander discovered that Pupil had filed false income tax returns for years.  ||Faced with probable imprisonment, Pupil decided to stab Clarence with a poisoned needle and leave false clues of suicide.  ||When Clarence took his shoes off in the Park and waded in the pond, Pupil stuck a needle dipped in curare poison in Clarence's left shoe.  When Clarence put his shoe on and collapsed, Pupil rushed forward pretending to render first aid.  He used this opportunity to plant the typewritten suicide note and the bottle of poison on Clarence.  [67A]>KILLER: Phillip Pupil|MOTIVE: Tax fraud|METHOD: Stuck poisoned needle inside shoe[9999K]
