Suspects

Colonel Mustard,

Algernon Mustard, late of the Bengal Lancers, held regimental honors as a marksman with both elephant gun and small caliber pistol; after he was mustered out, he stayed on in the Punjab. The Colonel has travelled halfway around the world to see Mr. Boddy on a matter of grave importance, or so he says.

But why does Mustard sleep with a revolver under his pillow?

Mrs. Peacock

After single-handedly saving the loggerhead shrike from extinction, amateur ornithologist Henrietta Peacock next turned her beady eye on the pied-bill grebe. Having spotted a pair nesting near the manor house, she came to beseech Mr. Boddy to create a bird sanctuary by donating his entire estate to the Peacock Salvation Society, of which she is founder and sole member.

Does Mrs. P. have her eye on more than the grebe?

Professor Plum

Edgar Plum, Ph.D.,head of the Archeology Department at a correspondence school, came to the manor to solicit financing for a bone-hunting expedition to an un-named Middle Eastern country. He knows just where to unearth a prehistoric skeleton to rival the Piltdown man - he says he can feel it in his bones.

But why does the Professor clam up whenever anyone digs into his past?

Miss Scarlet

Called the Mercenary of Macao - but never to her face - the sultry and sinister Scarlet will entertain any proposition that makes her a profit. After reading a how-to piece in the Society of Fortune Hunters Quaterly, she decided to try her hand at gold digging.

But could the price of gold be murder?

Mr. Green

Thallo Green, reputed kingpin in the “family” business, is a whiz at the numbers, but he finds himself dangerously short of cash at the moment. He figured he’d get out of the jam with Mr. Boddy’s help.

Did he make him an offer he couldn’t refuse?

Mrs. White

The maid at Boddy Mansion since before the War — she won’t divulge which one — Blanche White has seen ‘em come and go. Trouble is, she’s seen ‘em when and where they weren’t supposed to be comm and goin’.

Did she finally spy something that made her see red?

M. Brunette

Monsieur Alphonse Brunette deals in art and arms: Last year he almost made a killing in Paris when he produced what he swore were the missing appendages of the Venus de Milo. But this year, his business is on its last legs due to the questionable authenticity of several Impressionist works he sold to Mr. boddy. He claimed they were paintings by Monet - or was it Manet? As Alphonse always says, "Monet... Manet... What is zee différence?"

Miss Peach

She arrived at Mr. Boddy’s door without an invitation — or luggage —and announced she’s his long-lost great-step-niece, Georgia. When pressed, she explained that she decided on very short notice to take a long vacation in the country — any country!

Sgt. Gray

The local enforcer literally stumbled on the scene of the crime while making his regular weekly visit to the manor collecting funds for the Police Blackmail Awareness program. Could his unimaginative approach to crime stem from the fact that Gray always sees things as either black or white?

Madame Rose

Mr. Boddy’s eccentric former secretary, Rhoda Rosengarten changed her name when she moved to Hungary to hang out her shingle as a medium. Last week, in the midst of a ~eance, she “saw” a dark, ominous cloud descending on Boddy Manor and took a tramp steamer from Budapest in order to warn her old employer. She didn’t make it in time — or did she?