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71 Cards in this Set
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Mike schofield |
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Richard pratt |
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Loves food and wine |
Richard pratt |
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President of a society called epicures which was about good food and wine |
Richard pratt |
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Set in london, mike's house |
Taste |
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A man that had become very rich quickly and now wanted to be considered someone Who understood the good things in life |
Mike schofield |
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Louise |
Mike's 18 year old daughter |
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Where was the claret? |
In mike's study, it's breathing |
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Who help Mike to choose the room for the wine? |
Richard |
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They always bet a case of the wine but now... |
Richard wanted Mike to bet the hand of his daughter in marriage And he offer his 2 houses |
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The claret was |
A chateau branaire ducru 1934 |
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Who discovered Richard's plan? |
A servant, an old woman who found Richard's glasses in the study |
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A dentist who live in New York City |
Mr bixby |
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Mr and mrs bixby |
Mrs bixby and the colonel's coat |
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A big, active woman with a wet mouth |
Mrs bixby |
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Mrs bixby says that was going to visit her old aunt in baltimore but... |
It was an excuse. She was going to see her lover a man known as the colonel |
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He was very wealthy |
The colonel |
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Mrs bixby and the colonel had seen each other once a month for... |
8 years |
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Who made mrs bixby feels special? Who didn't? |
Special-the colonel Makes her feels like someone that had suffered -mr bixby |
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Wilkins, one of colonel's servant, appears in the station with.. |
A big box.... The deep rich blue mink coat |
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Why had colonel given her the coat? |
As a parting present. He left her |
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Where did she leave the coat? |
In a pawnbroker. Because her aunt couldn't give her a expensive coat |
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How much did they give her for the coat? |
Fifty dollars |
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What did she say to cyril bixby about the pawn ticket? |
She had found it on the seat of her taxi |
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Who was the one Who use silly suits, old-fashioned jackets and narrow trousers |
Cyril bixby |
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Mr bixby went to the pawnbroker and what did he give to mrs bixby? |
A little fur neckpiece |
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Who had the coat? |
Miss pulteney, the secretary |
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Mrs foster |
The way up to heaven |
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Had fear of missing a train, a plane, a boat or even the start of a play. The fear was almost an illness. As a resulta of this, a muscle of her eye began to tremble |
Mrs foster |
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Was annoyed and Keep his wife waiting unnecessarily |
Mr foster |
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He was nearly to seventy years had he'd been married for over thirty years |
Mr eugene foster |
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Set in NYC in a large six floor house |
The way up to heaven |
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She was going to visit her daughter |
Mrs foster |
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Live in París, married a frenchman, have 3 children |
Mrs and mr foster's daughter |
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Want to live in París with her daughter |
Mrs foster |
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Their butler (foster's) |
Walker |
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They arrived the airport but it's a bit foggy so... |
The flight had been delayed until eleven o'clock the next morning |
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Where was mr foster going to live while she was in París? |
In a club |
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Why mr foster delayed mrs foster? |
To annoy her. Saying he need to get a pack of cigarettes and then going to look for a gift to their daughter |
The 2nd time |
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Where was the gift? |
Mrs foster found it in the car |
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She wanted to tell eugene about the gift but... |
She heard sth through the Door and decided to go away |
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She went to París for six weeks and what did she do every week? |
Wrote a letter to her husband |
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When she came back to her house. What did she see first? |
The letter in the floor |
The way up to heaven |
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There were a strange smell and the sound she had heard before went to París was |
The lift which had broken, with her husband inside probably dead |
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Kind Six month pregnant House wife Loves her husband |
Mary maloney |
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Patrick |
Mary's husband Police officer |
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When did they usually go out for dinner? |
On thursday |
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She insisted in cooking sth but... |
Patrick didn't want to eat. He wanted to tell her sth |
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He left her and said that he'd give her money and saw that She was looked after. But She.. |
Was not believe any of it and acted like she didn't hear what he said. She went to do supper |
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Mary went downstairs to the freezer and took a frozen leg of lamb. She went with Patrick and... |
Hit his head with it. She killed him |
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She didn't want to get caught so... |
She calmed down and thought and prepared an alibi |
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She went out of the house from... |
The back Door and went to a near shop |
The leg of lamb |
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She said to the shopkeeper (sam) that Patrick didn't want to go outside that night and... |
Let the shopkeeper choose their dessert |
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She came back, got shock when she saw patrick's body and she started to cried. Then... |
She called the Police. Some friends of Patrick, jack noonan and o'malley |
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She told them her story. Did they believe her? |
And they believed her |
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They comfirmed the story with the shopkeeper and told her how they believed he died. How? |
He had been killed by a blow on the back of the head. The blow had been made by a heavy instrument, probably a large piece of metal. They're looking for it |
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What did she offer to them? |
She offered them a drink |
The leg of lamb |
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Jack noonan told her that the meat was still in the cooker. What did she said? |
She offered them the leg of lamb |
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They said that the weapon were probably under their noses and Mary maloney began to laugh. Why? |
Because they were eating the evidence, the weapon |
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Is it a perfect crime? |
Yes, it is. Because the Police officers Will never found the weapon so they probably never solve the crime |
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Cast |
Mike His wife His daughter, louise Richard The author Author's wife |
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What do they usually bet? |
Richard won a case of the wine itself |
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Who did they increse the bet? |
A case Fifty cases Ten thousands pounds Finally, both Richard's house and louise's hand in marriage |
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Where was the wine? |
In the study at the top of a green cupboard to reach room temperature |
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Why did Mike think that Richard couldn't win? |
Because the claret came from a very small wine-growing área that was surrounded by many other small áreas that produce different varieties of wine |
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Where did the claret come from? |
The wine was from bordeaux, from st julien, in the área of medoc. It was a chateau branaire ducru of 1934 |
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Did mrs foster know her grand sons? |
Only by photographs |
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Why did mrs foster come back to her house? |
Because her husband ordered her to came back |
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What did mrs foster do when she found the gift? |
She first sent the driver to tell mr foster about the gift. But the Door was looked, so she went but she heard a strange noise and went away |
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How did mrs foster notice that sth had happened with her husband? |
When she arrived from París, the first she saw in her house were all her letter in the floor and then she smelt a sth strange |
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Where was mr foster at the end? |
He was in the lift which had been stucked in the Middle of the 2nd and 3rd floor since she left the house going to París |
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