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Assignment to Chapter 8: Riddle of a Photograph

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. What does Bobby mean, two photographs?
2. What is Frankie’s guess about Pritchard being pushed over? Who
says, “If it was murder, everything fits in.”
3. What is the flaw?
4. What is the clue?
5. Does Frankie know that Bobby told the Caymans?
6. Who says: “Of course the Caymans are in it!”
7. Who does Frankie think the victim is/is not?
8. “You were safer out of the way”. What does this mean?
9. Is morphia easy to get/purchase?
10. What do Frankie and Bobby decide to do next?
11. What does Frankie say about Bassington-ffrench?
12. Who is the dead man really?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Echo (p. 36): the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of
sound waves
 Pukka (p. 37): authentic; proper
 Sahib (p. 37): sir, master – used, esp. among Hindus and Muslims
in colonial India, when addressing or speaking of a European of
some social or official status
 Everything in the garden lovely (p. 37): everything in order
 To put the wind up smb (p. 37): to startle smb
 Lunatic (p. 38): wildly foolish
 Deduction (p. 39): necessary conclusion reached by reasoning

3. Make sure to know the following items:
a nondescript fellow, to foresee, a decoy, a blunt instrument, tangible.