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Crime Story Collection

Partridge has been digging in the garden.

e Because she has read in the newspaper

that her son has won a lot of money, and

she hopes to get some of it.

f Because the police had found that

Partridge’s real mother was alive.

13 Partridge says that he invented an old

mother because he wanted to be alone. His

mother gave him a reason to refuse to see

people and refuse to go abroad for his job.

Then he began to believe in her and to talk

to her. She was kind and beautiful and she

loved him. His invented mother gave him

love which his real mother had not given

him.

14 a in America

b Open answers

c Open answers

15 Gamblers play games of chance with their

money because they hope to win more

money.

16 1H 2G 3A 4E 5B 6D 7J 8F 9C 10I

17 Open answers

18 Open answers

19 a scarecrow b corn

20 a False. Skip took his case to a law court

and won the right to keep his daughter.

b True

c False. He does not want to sell or rent

the fishing rights.

d False. It is such a shock that he is

unable to feel anything.

e False. He wants Andy to be away when

he murders Frosby.

f True

g False. He is very calm about it.

21 Open answers

22 Open answers

23 Wax is made from fats or oil. A waxwork is a

figure of a person or an animal made out of

wax.

24 (a) (i) (b) (i) (c) (ii) (d) (i)

25 Open answers

26 Open answers

27 You would use a spade to dig a hole.

28 1 dies 2 Emily 3 more confident

4 taller/thinner/richer 5 health farm

6 dead 7 take her to court 8 money

29 Open answers

30 Open answers

31 a earthquake b clue

32 a (vi) and (xi) come from Sheila’s ‘inside

story’.

b Before the story begins: (iii), (x), (I),

Monday: (ii), (v), (vii), (xii)

Tuesday: (iv), (viii), (ix)

33 The mention in Sheila’s story of a gardener

with ‘short, fat fingers’led Morse to the

murderer.

34–39 Open answers

Activities while reading the book

‘Three is a Lucky Number ’

1 (a) True

(b) False. His second wife had a brother.

(d) False. At least four years earlier.

(e) False. Because she was 43, alone, and

had a lot of money.

(f) False. They were married in a town

where they were both strangers.

(g) True

(h) False. He found a letter addressed to

him.

2 Because this was Ronald’s third attempt to

murder his wife, but this time the wife was

lucky and he failed.

‘Full Circle’

1 (a), (f), (b), (d), (c), (e)

2 (a) They find a bullet hole in the window of

the car.

(b) He gives a false name and address.

(d) The numbers and letters on the

numberplate.

(e) Because he is the owner of a Toyota with

that number.

(f) Because Terry is killed in an accident at

the place where he shot Caroline.

‘How’sYour Mother?’

1 (a) Humphrey to Reg Carter, the postman,

about his imaginary mother.

(b) Mr Brownlow, Humphrey’s employer, to

Humphrey, but Humphrey pretends his

mother needs him.

when he brings a package about Canada

and the letter that says Humphrey has

won some money.

(d) Reg Carter to Humphrey when he gets

into the house to put out the fire.

(e) Sergeant Wallace to Humphrey when he

says his imaginary mother is dead.

(f) Humphrey to Sergeant Wallace, talking

about his real mother.

(g) Humphrey’s real mother to Humphrey,

when she has read that he has won

some money.

(h) Sergeant Wallace to Humphrey, when he

tells him he has killed his mother and

buried her.

2 Open answers

‘At the Old Swimming Hole’

1 (a) To watch her old school friend Alicia

swimming in a competition.

(b) By shooting her at the moment when the

starting gun is fired.

this time (when the other girl is killed).

(d) The man who is trying to kill her falls

over the cat and falls downstairs.

(e) They think she has sold Defence

Department secrets to the Chinese.

(f) He tells her Alicia borrowed 750,000

dollars from Art Smollensk, the gambler.

(g) The noises in the background sound

familiar.

(h) Because Alicia is killed and Victoria has

not told the FBI where she is.

2 Open answers

Answers to Book activities

1 Open answers

2 a funeral b bubble c inspector d will

3 a He planned to get their money, after

killing them.

b He wants the bubbles to hide the electric

heater.

c He expects that the electricity in the bath

water will kill Edyth, who (he thinks) is in

the bath.

d It doesn’t happen because Edyth is not in

the bath.

e Edyth goes to the police because she is

afraid Ronald is planning to kill her.

She was surprised that he wanted her to

make her will on her wedding day. She is

worried by the work which he has been

doing in the bathroom.

f The police ask Edyth to let Ronald try to

kill her.

g She escapes out of the bathroom

window, across the flat roof of the kitchen

and down the ladder which is kept

outside the kitchen door.

h They are the footsteps of the police, who

are coming to take Ronald to prison.

i Open answers

4 Open answers

5 Open answers

6 a false b true c true

7 green Ford: Terry Layton

Volkswagen: Kinsey Millhone

small white car: Caroline

first blue Toyota: Terry Layton

second blue Toyota Ron Cagle

8 a The young man from the blue Toyota is

speaking to Kinsey Millhone after the car

crash. He has just felt Caroline’s neck.

b Mrs Spurrier is speaking to Kinsey about

the crash in which her daughter died.

She says the police believe it was murder

because they found a bullet hole in the

car.

c The police secretary, Emerald, is

speaking to Kinsey, who has asked for

information about one of the witnesses to

the crash.

d The manager of the restaurant where

Caroline worked is speaking to Kinsey

about the young man who had been

annoying her.

e Judy Layton is speaking to Kinsey about

Caroline who shared her room at

university.

f Kinsey is speaking to Ron Cagle about

the number plates of his blue Toyota,

which now has different number plates.

9 Open answers

Answers to Factsheet activities

10 Open answers

11 a after they die b less important

12 a He says that she is eighty six and that

she doesn’t go out at all, although her

health is not bad.

b We are told that the bed in her room is

empty.

c When he learns that he has won a large

sum of money.

d The fact that Partridge has no document

showing that she has died; the stories of

people in the village; the fact that

Communicative activities

Open answers

Student’s activities

Activities before reading the book

Open answers, but if the story is written from

the detective’s viewpoint, we are more likely to

be interested in the solution. If it is written from

the murderer’s viewpoint, the reason for the

murderer’s action and the murderer ’s character

become more important.

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‘Slowly, Slowly in the Wind’

(a) (iv), (b) (viii), (c) (vi), (d) (i), (e) (ii), (f)

(v), (g) (vii), (h) (iii)

‘Woodrow Wilson’s tie’

1 (a) The part where there are scenes of

murder.

(b) He thinks the scenes are funny.

them.

(d) He is a delivery boy at a

supermarket.

(e) Because he thinks it is the best

place and that she will look funnier

with her clothes on.

(f) The people visiting the waxworks

realize the blood is real.

(g) He doesn’t understand why people

don’t think the murders are funny.

He tells the police what he has

done.

(h) Because he wants people to take

notice of him.

2 Open answers

‘The Absence of Emily’

(a)Miss Peters, pretending to be Emily,

speaking to Albert. She rings so that

Millicent can see his reaction.

(b)Millicent to Albert. She has asked Mrs

Macmillan to pretend to be Emily.

his first wife died.

(d)Millicent to Albert when he sees Mrs

Macmillan in the street and runs after

her.

(e)Albert to Millicent when he receives a

letter from Emily.

(f) Albert to Millicent and her lawyer, when

they find him digging.

(g)Millicent to Albert, telling him about the

part Mrs Macmillan played.

(h)Emily to Albert, when she comes home.

She says she didn’t want Millicent to

know the truth.

‘The Inside Story’

1 (a) True

(b) True

Bayley was the father.

(d) True

(e) True

(f) He didn’t believe she was going to

have a baby.

(g) Bayley told her that Mrs Granger

wanted to end her marriage and

marry him.

(g) Bayley murdered her because she

refused to do what he wanted.

2 Because there is a story written by the

person who was murdered inside the

main story and because the phrase ‘The

Inside Story’means the truth, told by the

person who really knows.

money; Grafton – jealousy; Brett – keeping

money and revenge for being left as a

baby; Panetsky – money; Highsmith (1) –

revenge for his daughter marrying the son

of someone he thought of as an enemy,

and hatred; Highsmith (2) – the man is

mad; Ritchie – money; Dexter–needing to

kill a former lover to marry a richer woman.

Activities after reading the book

Open answers, but the motives of the

murderers at a glance are: Allingham –

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