Jerry Delvin Act 3

Question 1

Start of act three

Answer 1

Well folks if there’s a secret exit in that closet I sure can’t find it

Question 2

Oh good leaves us just enough time to pretty up before they start grilling us again

Answer 2

Unless we decide to play charades

Question 3

What are you talking about

Answer 3

Being on the homicide squad doesn’t absolve you of the suspect if

Question 4

And hell we may as well figure out those numbers while we’re waiting

Answer 4

I guess it would be nice to be able to read the entire wheel at that

Question 5

And don’t forget the attempted murder of Pepe

Answer 5

Say that’s right and that’s another puzzle and development what was the motive? I mean both Marvins and Lucretia could’ve expose the killer – but what did Peppi know

Question 6

82 as in at two blue tag minus the brew and the tag

Answer 6

Just for clarification then let’s see how the entire Wil reads the way Joe’s I intended it to be read after the

Question 7

You’re right! Would he do such a thing to and I Louise for instance I know he liked her she should get some kind of inheritance without having to scramble for it

Answer 7

Same thing goes for the service. Marvin’s had given years of loyal service and Pepe and Lucretia rated consideration to

Question 8

Which brings us back to Eloise is earlier concern about Jerry

Answer 8

On our way to minute I swear I mean of course I don’t know for an absolute certainty that my various solutions are correct but don’t forget, I didn’t decide everything in this will

Question 9

But if the wills been misinterpreted no matter who made errors what possible alternative interpretation could there be

Answer 9

Well wait a minute, beats me… where we could have gone wrong, anyone else have any ideas

Question 10

Well look now we all Know that some of the coding was simple I mean certain interpretations are blatantly obvious like that last will and testament that perhaps if we eliminated the sections were absolutely sure of and then concentrated on the parts were wide variety of interpretations were possible

Answer 10

That’s not bad thinking Zita not bad at all

Question 11

And don’t forget the older Gemini bit further along we know that it can’t be right since Marvins was older but 45 minutes

Answer 11

Don’t jump around like that – let’s stick to one thing at a time Adler now that trembling bit of crockery for instance

Question 12

Alouise you’re always a basket case I just don’t happen to have the emotional type I hold my sorrow inside deep and

Answer 12

Just exactly where were you when your brother was murdered Adler

Question 13

And yes at least sort of

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What for Pete’s ache the last two people who held information back won’t ever be talking again

Question 14

Well when LaKiesha was killed again nobody could have done it unless Pippi was lying Lou is alive when she went into that closet and mighty dad when she came out and picked it wasn’t strong enough to of hung her up on the doorway

Answer 14

Casey we know all that I don’t follow you anymore than Dave

Question 15

Never mind turning the clock back to the Civil War we need a solution to today’s problem

Answer 15

Holy jumping Jehoshaphat Dave

Question 16

What

Answer 16

The Sheridan twins did your records clerk give you their weight at birth

Question 17

Are you sure the strain hasn’t been too much for you buddy

Answer 17

Just answer my question

Question 18

I haven’t the vaguest idea what you’re driving at jr but I can give you the answer to that question

Answer 18

Not while you’re still a suspect I’d rather hear it from a cop

Question 19

Others what

OK here it is would you mind telling me what the relative sizes of twin boys has to do with anything

Answer 19

As soon as you read me their weights Lieutenant

Question 20

I could’ve told you that except for Lux we were practically identical and everything weight length height health

Answer 20

Beautiful than that until Civil War in my clinches it

Question 21

Others what

Answer 21

Buzzy if a woman gives birth to twins what is the normal or at least the average duration between their breath if both are the same size and weight

Question 22

But why and blazes has giving birth got to do with the Civil War

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Not a damn thing

Question 23

But you said

Answer 23

And it wasn’t what I said it was wet feel sad

Question 24

Jerry you can’t mean it

Answer 24

Mean what? I never accused her of anything

Question 25

The hell you did it! We all heard you

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Oh hell not U2 parentheses walks over the phonograph parentheses I was merely trying to find a flaw in the statement we’ve all been excepting without question and

Question 26

I’ve had enough of these insults why would I lie to you about my birth weight at birth what possible importance could it have

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I should think it would be obvious to all of you

Question 27

Very well very well

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And that’s how Marvin’s murder was committed

Question 28

Of course! He must have! That’s why he take that argument with Jerry so Jerry would walk away from the group and attempt other 20 for the dagger

Answer 28

Right

Question 29

Excuse me but

Answer 29

Yes?

Question 30

What in the world does the Civil War have to do with this

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As I’ve already told you Mrs. Travers absolutely nothing at all

Question 31

I I really can’t remember now it was right after Adler me that’s not remark about Robert E Lee I remember that much

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And you snapped at him about turning the clock back that’s the clue I’ve been searching for

Question 32

Except it means that the will was absolutely correct about the Sheridan being the killer

Answer 32

Oh yes baby very much so! Desire Travers was a very shrewd man. He merely forgotten the significance of the date on which the twins were born

Question 33

I resent that I swear I told you exactly what that records clerk told me

Answer 33

Relax stay if you weren’t lying and neither was that clerk

Question 34

Seeing what

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The twins were born on Halloween earlier on a Sunday morning and that means it was the last Sunday in October

Question 35

Jerry we know that much

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Yes but we all forgot one thing what happens every year on the last Saturday in October

Question 36

Because that’s the real time the clocks get turned back most people of course do it on Saturday night before they go to bed

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But the actual official turn back time is at 2 AM Sunday

Question 37

They turn the clocks back to 1 AM

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And at 1:05 Marvin Sheridan was born which makes Adler are older gentleman I just does Josiah told us

Question 38

Well that pretty well wrapped things up I’ll take it over now flame but please don’t anybody leave the house just yet when I get back from the police station I still a few odds and ends I’d like explained

Answer 38

I’ve got an odd one right now Dave just why are you taking him to the station

Question 39

Are you serious he confessed to murder has and he and I as an officer of the law

Answer 39

Aren’t you forgetting that the police are already on their way

Question 40

Hold it right there

Answer 40

Then you did take that call

Question 41

Honestly Theo sometimes I don’t think you’ve got the brains you were born with Dave is the confederate we are postulating

Answer 41

Good for you Eloise

Question 42

It’s not even that time consuming Adler the money is not in Lucerne

Answer 42

Ha ha then you cut that that did you

Question 43

Who did you did do some hanky-panky Jerry

Answer 43

Well yes I did but not to you at least not on purpose I had to keep Adler and Dave in the dark about it sorry I had to polemics the rest of you at the same time

Question 44

Wait a minute are you saying you knew I was in on it the whole time even when we were decoding the will

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Yes but I can’t take any credit for that flame told me

Question 45

But dammit Dave what’s that got to do with the

Answer 45

I can tell you that anyone who’s ever solved a lot of puzzles can tell you that the name that always crops up defined as a sea eagle is an urn ERNE turn

Question 46

But if the safe deposit boxes in there why bother to give us the number

Answer 46

There you’ve got me shrug

Question 47

Who did backtrack a bit when did you overhear them talking

Answer 47

When he was hidden in that closet shortly before he rang the bell

Question 48

I congratulate you Mr. Galvan how did you know

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Hell the secret panel wasn’t all that hard to find when I knew there had to be one in the closet

Question 49

Connie How did you know

Answer 49

It was the only explanation for Lucretius murder if he couldn’t have helped in the body onto the door Hook in the closet was empty when we found Lucretia so there had to be another way in

Question 50

Why not

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Because the panel open onto the front porch and who was it who came in from the front porch just moments later

Question 51

And then grabbing a box sliding into the chair and snoring so I think he’s been asleep all along

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He sounds like a man I’d like to have known

Question 52

Zita, look out

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What now, Dave?! Adler our of conissjon, and you certainly can’t shoot all of us

Question 53

Why shucks I

Answer 53

Zita, can’t you do something about our amphibian friend

Question 54

Hours ago! You mean even before he got the drop in us

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We wanted to be prepared, just in case. I mean, we didn’t know when he was going to revert to type exactly

Question 55

But how did you know Dave was in cahoots with Adler

Answer 55

Because whoever triggered that dagger mechanism to kill Marvin’s had to be in back of the. At at the time. And that’s where Dave was all by himself the rest of us were down near the desk

Question 56

How did he turn out the lights from there

Answer 56

That’s where either came into it I suspect that after having gone into the bathroom leaving the ladies for a moment he ducked out of the bathroom window came around the front porch panel and reach out of the closet to dark in the room then all he had to do was get back to the bathroom while Dave was illuminating Marvins at the bar

Question 57

Look we can iron out the details later right now let’s look into that box

Answer 57

You’re right after all the contents of this box is with the entire evening’s been about

Question 58

You’re lucky you got to take a nap

Answer 58

That’s got it here goes well I’ll be darned

Question 59

I want to Swiss francs there

Answer 59

I’m afraid not

Question 60

Others what?

Answer 60

It seems we all made one slight error about those holy hotdogs that’s not what they represent at all

Question 61

Then what Jerry

Answer 61

Those are hotdogs does your pots and those aren’t hold their seeds what Joe’s I was drawing there is St. John’s bread

Question 62

Isn’t that a fancy name for what is it the Caribbean

Answer 62

Right and knowing how does I luxuriated and pans what does that term suggest to you

Question 63

Caribbean like the Caribbean Sea

Answer 63

Exactly! And considering the term C in financial circles what would it can video

Question 64

100 like in a C-note $100 bill

Answer 64

Bingo! And in this box is nice thick packets of 1000 a piece with one of our names on each packet we have more see notes than I’ve ever seen in my life

Question 65

We’re rich we’re all rich

Answer 65

What do you mean we?