[123T]>The Eye of the Eiger[123C][123Q]>3412>CRIMINAL:|1. Regie Jackson|2. Gerald Mulch|3. Edmund Germain|4. Dr. Klopps|>MOTIVE:|1. Envy|2. Greed|3. Get out of contract|4. Blackmail|>METHOD:|1. Drugs|2. Hypnotism|3. Voodoo|4. Induced Amnesia|[123S]>Sir Edmund Hillman was an old fashioned hero: adventurous, modest and widely admired.  Dr. Simon "Sy" Klopps who scaled the Eiger with Hillman deeply resented that his team leader gathered "all the glory" for the climb.  Motivated by intense envy, Dr. Klopps utilized his considerable skills as a hypnotist to cause Sir Edmund to disgrace himself by appearing to shoplift clothes bearing the Eiger Fashions logo.  Holmes realized that Sir Edmund's doodles of a green eye in the Eiger revealed the solution to the case.  Sir Edmund's subconscious mind associated Dr. Klopps with the one-eyed monster of myth, the cyclops.  The green eye on the sketch suggested envy as a motive and hypnotism as the means of the crime.  [123A]>CRIMINAL: Dr. Sy Klopps |MOTIVE: Envy|METHOD: Hypnotism[125T]>The Random Murders[125C][125Q]>3134>KILLER:|1. Sean Byron|2. Brendan Bee|3. Henry Hyde|4. Moe Jagger|>MASTERMIND:|1. Professor Moriarty|2. Caesar Grasshopper|3. Sir Leroy Tick|4. Alistair Mallory|>MOTIVE:|1. Revenge|2. Eliminate witnesses|3. Create political unrest|4. Win election|[125S]>Whig precinct worker Sean Byron set a new low in unsportsmanlike conduct in a political campaign: he murdered supporters of the opposition party.  The incumbent candidate, Whig Sir Leroy Tick, derived a double benefit from his zealous supporter's actions since the murders not only decreased the number of Labour votes but also provided him with a strong "Law and Order" campaign issue.  Although Sir Leroy did not instruct Byron to commit murder, he set the shocking events in motion by ordering his unbalanced aide to "do what it takes" to eliminate the Labour lead in the polls.  Byron did as he was told.[125A]>KILLER: Sean Byron|MASTERMIND: Sir Leroy Tick|MOTIVE: Win election[131T]>Moriarty's Challenge[131C][131Q]>3242>MORIARTY'S AGENT:|1. Henri Wickhill|2. Bill Beaconfield|3. Stella Plow|4. Sol Ox|>METHOD:|1. Poisoned Salt|2. Poisoned Cake|3. Exploding Cake|4. Exploding Candle|>INTENDED TIME OF MURDER:|1. 9:00 PM|2. 9:30 PM|3. 10:00 PM|4. 10:30 PM|[131S]>The arch-villain, Professor James Moriarty, chose Holmes' birthday as an appropriate occasion to engage the master sleuth in a battle of wits.  He planted an explosive in the candle at the table reserved for Holmes at the London Bistro.  Although waiter Bill Beaconfield bore no ill will toward Holmes and never had dealings with Moriarty, he was Moriarty's unwitting agent in crime by lighting the candle intended to kill the great detective.  As the candles at the restaurant last three hours, and the explosive was contained midway in the candle on Holmes' table, the murder would have occurred at 9:30.  [131A]>MORIARTY'S AGENT: Bill Beaconfield|METHOD: Exploding candle  |INTENDED TIME OF MURDER: 9:30 PM[135T]>The Doctor's Last Lament[135C][135Q]>3132>KILLER:|1. Vernon Arnoux|2. Thomas Renova|3. Waldo Barrett|4. Reginald Burnham|>WEAPON:|1. Cyanide|2. Electricity|3. Hypodermic needle|4. Pin from good conduct medal|>MOTIVE:|1. Cover up scandal|2. Punish treason|3. Blackmail|4. Temporary insanity|[135S]>Dr. Van Nogh was a man with a guilty conscience.  He served in the British Army during the South African campaign; but when he was captured in battle he became a traitor and fought on the side of the Boers.  Hence his cryptic remark that he had been a "bloody bore".  His commanding officer, General Vernon Arnoux, always suspected Van Nogh's treason but could never prove it.  Finally, he decided to take justice into his own hands and "execute" Van Nogh.  When Arnoux confronted Van Nogh, he permitted the doctor to write a suicide note.  The General killed Van Nogh by injecting air into the man's arm with a hypodermic needle.  Afterwards, thinking that he needed a more credible suicide method, General Arnoux poured cyanide into the dead man's mouth.[135A]>KILLER: Arnoux|WEAPON: Hypodermic|MOTIVE: Punish treason[9999K]
