A pocketful of gold

A POCKETFUL OF GOLD.

In the Lounge, Mr. Boddy’s guests were really bored, nothing to do. Miss Scarlet had been so bored she had fallen asleep. She was clutching the Wrench in her hand. Mrs. White was also really bored and was pretending to shoot the other guests with the Revolver. Colonel Mustard was whipping the Rope in a circle. Mr. Boddy came in and saw the bored guests and said. I just bought a treasure chest worth 5 million dollars! The guests bolted straight up looking at him and said where is it! Mr. Boddy looked at a snoring Miss Scarlet and told them he had hidden it in the Ball Room so no one could find it. I know that each of you is plotting to steal it so I have made sure that no one goes into the Ball Room.

Later…

A masked man carrying a Candlestick went up to a ball room door and saw that it was locked and had a layer of glass coating around it. He started banging on the glass when a second thief bonked the first thief on the head with a Lead Pipe! This second thief used his Lead Pipe to try to break the lock until after about five minutes he stopped and couldn’t break it open. Then he threw the Lead Pipe on the floor, the Lead Pipe hit the first thief who had woken up and knocked him unconscious again. After the second thief went to bed, a third thief with the Knife went to another Ball Room door and started picking at the lock. This third thief managed to get the lock open. They searched around the Ball Room and found the chest then ran away.

WHO IS THE THIRD THIEF?

Solution:

MRS. PEACOCK in the BALL ROOM with the KNIFE.

Miss Scarlet has the Wrench, Mrs. White has the Revolver, and Mustard has the Rope. Since the thieves cannot be any of those three. We can eliminate them. The first 2 thieves are males so they must be Mr. Green and Professor Plum. This leaves Mrs. Peacock as the third thief.

Luckily for Mrs. Peacock, she managed to get the locked treasure chest open. But it was empty! Mr. Boddy hid the treasure somewhere else.