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But you were thinking

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Hi I am Jerry delvin

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Buzzy Burdett

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Hope we are not late. It took forever to find a taxi

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We can’t begin till everyone is present anyhow come in and get comfortable while you’re waiting

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Who else is coming

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Really miss fondue

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Fondue?

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And I am Adler Sheridan the late Josiah Travers lawyer

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So your aunt Eloise

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Why would you do

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Sorry for the Familiarity, Eloise. It’s just that CONNIE always calls you that

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That’s impossible

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Well improbable perhaps, I’ll grant you. Say, where is Connie

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Now just a moment my niece Connie is in the social register

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Oh and I am merely in the Manhattan phonebook, is that it

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No wait just putting names to people isn’t enough! I should like to know why certain people are here!

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Isn’t this gathering by invitation only?

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I believe Alouise is trying to sort out in her mind what possible reason they might be for certain of those invitations

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Oh, now I get it! Well, here, let me start: I’m Jerry Delvin I make my living creating puzzles for a variety of magazines, I meant Josiah Travers one day when he came to my office to complain about in an erroneous definition I’d given for a puzzle clue. He was very big on puzzles

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Even sold the world must be full of puzzle creators why should uncle Joe’s I have singled out Mr. Delvin to share in what should be a family inheritance

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For that matter why did he insist on having Mr. Sheridan invite buzzy? Buzzy never never even met him

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Zita!

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You’re a great uncle had me investigate it? Why didn’t you tell me

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I was afraid you’d be upset

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You were right! The nerve of him, snooping and prying into Mayeye…

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Jerry it’s common practice in wealthy families to be certain that marriageable offspring don’t fall prey to Fortune hunters

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Well thanks a lot!

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Of course she didn’t stare give her a break ha ha

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All hell I’m sorry Connie. But you should’ve told me about it

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Very well take it from the top

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OK I’m Jerry Delvon a puzzle constructor just I love to do puzzles I presume that’s why he invited me

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And Lucretia who just went running out out of here is the family cook, of course does that cover everybody?

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All except Dan Denton

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Wait perhaps it’s not who Mr. Denton is but what he does. I mean Josiah would send for say a plumber without knowing the man personally if you follow me so perhaps

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Hey that makes good sense. And come to think of it you never did tell us what you are Denton

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They are there Eloise I’m sure it’s merely some sort of coincidence

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What is?

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He and James Agua have been very close friends

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Whoa what details

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Not at the rate it’s going

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Connie what have you been keeping for me

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Uncle Josiah the way she died. You assumed it was old age and well I let you go on assuming that

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Assuming Kearney you told me you’re a great uncle had died quite peacefully in his bed

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I can see what Connie meant by peacefully except I was spelling it wrong

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Do you mean murder

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You are right of course Connie let me try to get them back

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Listen while we’re waiting I’m curious how it is that a kindergarten teacher is acquainted with the detective out of homicide

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Buzzy on the phone “my nurse dropped an antique vase “
I’d still like to know how Josiah happen to invite Dan here tonight unless he was into aerobics also
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I’m afraid I don’t know anymore about it then you do
Well I’ll be darned! I might have guessed he would do something like that, the old slide boots
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Jerry do you mean you understand that thing
Well not quite of course but I recognize it for what it is
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What is it
It’s a rebus
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A what
A picture puzzle! Those drawings and things stand for words it was one of Joseph’s favorite puzzle forms
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What does it say
Well wait hold on a minute I can read some of it right off the bat but other parts will take a little figuring
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Zita is right go ahead Jerry what does it say
Well let’s see now sometimes certain drawings can have a wide variety of interpretations but I’ll make it as clear as it is to me anyhow
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Just get to it
OK it begins my friends
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Don’t interrupt Liu
I have to read the words you know so we can see where the picture fits in between them
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Of course you do my boy go right ahead
Thank you OK then my friends please then some sort of teddy bear with the word me on its chest followed by a period
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Meaning what?
Well let’s see no bear with me on it oh that’s it
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What
My friends please bear with me.
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I will
That next parts kind of obscure a pair of rectangle with an arrow indicating the second rectangle than an eighth of clubs the word who’s been what seems to be a bunch of arms and legs
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Adler’s right Heloise calm down
Shall I go on or what
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Go on of course
All right then we have the words enjoy dabbling in Ray followed by a couple of buses are of course
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What?
It means enjoy dabbling in rebuses In re buses
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But what can those two rectangles mean
That’s where Reed is is get tough there are so many variety of terminology possible besides being rectangles they might also be referred to as boxes or tetragon’s or oblongs or maybe they’re supposed to be two blank sheets of notepaper end to end
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Or even oblong to
Kissy that’s it I belong to a club
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I don’t get it
It’s a pun most rebuses i | Are it means I belong to a club whose members enjoy dabbling in rebuses
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I figured the next part right after that, there is a sign indicating therefore I remember it from geometry class in high school
Good for you Marlan’s
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Got it! What’s next
Oh the next bit easy it was one of the first things I spotted one Mr. Sheridan roll down the chart. In the midst of all those words we have a drawing of an open tin can and mustache Io balding man with an Elizabethan rough around his neck and what must be it but just before the next. Figure the man to be William Shakespeare I mean he certainly Elizabethan and the sketch looks like a painting of him I saw him once
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But what could my last Shakespeare possibly meet
Not Shakespeare will
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Others respond to testament
I’m afraid I’m stymied by the next drawing though. Looks like someone machine gun and a pair of salamis anyone care to give it a try
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Actually those things look more like hotdogs to me but what could puncture hotdogs me
Look let’s skip that one and MoveOn maybe it’ll make sense to us once we know the context
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And some kind of animal is Paul with a whopper of a pimple on it
Oh and that guy on the right is Johan Sebastian Bach if I remember rightly but who is the gal cheek to cheek with him
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It was safe Sandra Dee a pot with it and a pair of box
Safe
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Safe deposit box
You’ll find a large sum of whatever those ventilated we need mean in a safe deposit box in in a wobbly face?
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Of course that’s silly earn have to be loose for a while just about ready to take a tumble but Joe’s I wouldn’t know about it
Buzzy that’s it
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Others what
The sketch doesn’t mean a wobbly base it means a loose earn
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But why go all the way to Lucerne in Switzerland to fill a safe deposit box with the poorest brought worst
Will just have to let that part go for a while let’s MoveOn
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Oh no bad enough feeling numb without feeling even number
That’s it! It’s another pun! Procaine is a number but if you ride it out it’s spelled exactly like number
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No of course we’re not Mr. Dalton would you please continue
I don’t know if I can I mean the significance of the empty mailbox eludes me completely
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It must be some kind of clue
Yeah a puzzle love her like Josiah wouldn’t make a mistake like that
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Labor Day
No they don’t seem to make any sense at all
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Halloween
How do you figure buzzy
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Forget it. We’re all kind of tense right now
Letters that say an empty mailbox means missing letters
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Jerry I need that can’t be right I mean we’re looking for numbers not letters right
Well yeah I guess you’re right
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Whatever
Cesar! Of course! And what was his final word
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The French word for tea is Ty is that any help
Wait a minute that’s too brutal brutal the brewing tea but get rid of that part
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You’re all wrong it’s a been I’m a cook trust me
Hey I think she’s right
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But why two zeros 0 mph would mean the same thing
Damn is right that double zero must be significant somehow
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Or even Atlantic City
Which means it probably doesn’t refer to any of them a clue that vague wouldn’t be playing fair
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diamond, diamond in I, old diamond Inn I
Gem not diamond it’s a horoscope sign Gemini
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Older the first time and is just a set up showing a jam that’s a recent eighth so will know the other one is older
Of course so the last part reads an older Gemini in this very house kindly see to at least see and to seem to be as simple as that kindly see to the usual legalities inherent in such instances
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Where does all of this leave us
Kissy what have you got so far
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Easy for you to say! He’s already set up a trust fund for you and Kiersten and Theodosia
Look you can fight it out later about the terms of the will. Let’s try to see what those terms are first, shall we?
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Now now Halloween we don’t know that not yet not till the entire Willis figured out
I wish I could figure out the empty mailbox thing
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It’s those frankfurters with the holes that are driving me nuts
Missing letters… First missing letters… First initially missing letters…
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As you wish Lieutenant Denton
Initials! First initials! That’s why Josiah used both words! And I think it even explain Dan
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What are you talking about
You said you’d never met him and get Joe’s I selected you to be here tonight after he checked out the names of all the detectives in your department. it must be because your name begins with a D what other reason could there be?
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Yikes I wish that didn’t make sense
Those letters – our initials – what are they? Let’s see – taking them alphabetically –
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But which initial I mean my name and downs and buddies are the same first or last but
Nono, Josiah said first initially it must be the first name
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Oh of course I meant to stop at his name and ask him and then I was so busy alphabetizing that I forgot
Forgot to ask him what?
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Begging your pardon ma’am but Marvin’s is my first name
Isn’t that unusual? I thought Butler is always went by their last name
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Why it’s – black out ad lib.
What happened?
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Too bad Marvins didn’t
I think he’s dead
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Who could do such a thing
And how did they do it

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