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P e n g u i n R e a d e r s A n s w e r K e y
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Crime Story Collection
INTERMEDIATE
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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
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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
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22
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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
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26
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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.
(c) True
(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.
(c) A green Ford.
(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.
(c) Reg Carter, the postman, to Humphrey,
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
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‘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.
(c) Because he says she has been lucky
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
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Answers to Book activities
1
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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
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4
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5
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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
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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
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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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Crime Story Collection
‘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.
(c) Mildred takes the tickets. Fred sells
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
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‘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.
(c) Albert to Millicent. He is telling her how
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
(c) She was expecting a baby but
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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