Lines

Question 1

I started…

Answer 1

I started by looking in the kitchen
then i detected in the utility room
then i detected in the dining room
then i detected in the living room where i found the missing wheel to my Airfix Saturn 1b rocket model 172 under the sofa

Question 2

Then I went upstairs…

Answer 2

I didn’t do any detecting in my own room as I reasoned that father wouldn’t hind anything from me in my own room unless he was being very cleaver and doing what’s called a double bluff like in real murder mystery novels. So I decided to look in my own room if I couldn’t find the book anywhere else

Question 3

I detected in the

Answer 3

Bathroom. But the only place to look was in the airing cupboard but there was nothing in there.
Which meant the only room left to detect in was fathers bedroom

Question 4

I started by looking under the bed

Answer 4

Then I heard his van pulling up outside the house and I knew that I had to think fast and be clever.
I heard Father shutting the door of the van. And that is when I saw the envelope.
It was an envelope addressed to me and it was lying under my book in the shirt box with some other envelopes. I picked it up.

Question 4

It had never been opened

Answer 4

It said Poaneil Boone, 36 Randolph Street, Swindon, Wiltshire

Then I noticed there were lots of envelopes and They were all addressed to me. And this was interesting and confusing.
then I noticed how the words Christopher and Swindon. were written. They were written like this.

Christopher. Swindon.
I only know three people who do little circles instead of dots over the letter i. And one of them is Siobhan. And one of them was Mr Loxley who used to teach at the school, And one of them was Mother.

Question 5

I went up

Answer 5

To my room and when im the room I shut the door and took out the envelope. I opened ,
the envelope. Inside there was a letter. And this was what was written in the letter.

Question 6

I was really confused

Answer 6

Mother had never worked as a secretary for a factory that made things out of steel, and she had never lived in London. Mother had also never written me a letter before. There was no date on the letter, so I couldn’t work out when it had been written. However, there was a date on the postmark—16 October 2011—which meant the letter was posted eighteen months after Mother had died