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The printed Six Valentine Bouquets case laid out on a wooden table by candlelight, a hand holding the folding valentine

Case file KS-01

Six Valentine Bouquets

St Valentine's Day, 1921. Six valentine bouquets arrive at one house in Kensington Square. By morning the master of the house is dead, and the young woman still waiting for a fiancé lost three years ago has been sent a single posy of forget-me-nots.

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Players
2–6
Time
105–135 minutes
Difficulty
medium
Age
13+

What’s in the file

  • 3 envelopes, opened one at a time
  • 26 papers: reports, letters, statements and photographs
  • About 40 pages to print at home, on A4 or US Letter
  • Hints and the full solution, read on screen

Inside the envelopes

  1. Envelope OneThe Shop in Hanover Mews8 papers
    • Briefing letter
    • Investigator's note
    • Logbook pages × 2
    • Receipts and tickets
    • Folded puzzle to cut out
    • Flower booklet
    • Newspaper
  2. Envelope TwoThe House in Kensington Square8 papers
    • Medical report
    • Witness statements
    • Police notebook
    • Map
    • Logbook pages
    • Torn paper to fit together
    • Evidence photographs
    • Diary pages
  3. Envelope ThreeThe Missing Man10 papers
    • Timeline sheet
    • Witness statements
    • Logbook pages
    • Letters × 3
    • Torn paper to fit together
    • Army form
    • Coded message
    • Your report form

You are on the staff of Bellamy & Crane, a private enquiry agency in London, run by Mr Oswald Bellamy, once of the Metropolitan Police. In January 1921 Miss Imogen Vane hired the agency to find her fiancé, Captain Edmund Hale, missing since March 1918 and declared dead. On St Valentine's Day six bouquets arrived at her guardian's house in Kensington Square, two from senders who gave no name; by morning her guardian, Sir Reginald Calloway, was dead. Follow the six bouquets through the file, and find out who must answer for his death.

Content: One death off the page by poison, no gore; the war's missing and wounded, treated gently

From the file

Hold the lens over a page to read it; pull a picture and it swings on its thread.Tap a page to put the lens on it, and drag the lens to read.

The London Courier's front page, February 1921: the sudden death of a baronet at Kensington Square
The Little Language of Flowers, a florist's card of flowers and what each one means

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