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1. What had happened to Charlie's
husband seven years ago?
2. What are the names of Charlie's two sons?
3. Who is Milo?
4. What is the plan?
5. What is Charlie's real name?
6. When is the competition supposed to take place?
7. What do the neighbor's call the Rothburys' house? And why?
8. What jobs are Charlie's sons supposed to perform during the weekend?
9. What did the mailman deliver on the day of the guests' arrival?
10. What did Charlie do with the envelope to keep the name of the winner a
secret?
11. What sound does the doorbell make?
12. Who were the first guests to arrive?
13. What was the first technical problem of the weekend?
14. Who had difficulty getting through the door?
15. Who was thought to be having a heart attack when she arrived?
16. What odd habit does Clayborne Turnbaum have?
17. What two things does the wall of book jackets hide?
18. Who did Thelma Turnbaum wish to speak with A.S.A.P.?
19. Which guest complained about the radio reception and her cell phone range?
20. Which guests almost arrived late?
21. Whose room did Thelma Turnbaum visit before dinner?
22. What did she and Merle Bancroft do?
23. What activity did Michael try to encourage during the before-dinner
refreshments?
24. What was Olivia Conley doing while Paula was getting their punch and hors
d'oeuvres?
25. What was Carol upset about before dinner?
26. How did Keith get the attention of the guests to tell them dinner was
served?
27. With what were the walls of the dining room adorned?
28. Who was having trouble finding his seat at the table?
29. What was the first course of the meal?
30. What did Olivia do during dinner?
31. Who handed Carol a pen and held her book open for her to autograph it?
32. What happened outside the dining room window while the guests were eating?
33. What fell into Kurt's soup bowl? Why?
34. What were Keith and Michael fighting over before the main course was served?
35. What happened when Michael lit the white rum on the meat?
36. Who, among the guests, were fighting throughout the meal?
37. Who said he was losing his appetite while the authors discussed the perfect
murder?
38. What happened while the guests were eating dessert?
39. What did they discover when the lights came back on?
40. What did Olivia suggest they do? And why?
41. What did Charlie tell Keith to do?
42. Who did Carol think Charlie was? And why?
43. What did Charlie do after the guests locked themselves in their rooms?
44. Who moved Thelma's body? And where did they move her?
45. Who screamed after the lights went out and before they came back on?
46. Who reads romance novels by covering them with the dust jacket from an
adventure novel?
47. What did Charlie see when she and Kurt looked out the window?
48. What did Jerry say the snowstorm had been named?
49. Who did Charlie send outside to check on the snowshoe tracks? And what
did he discover?
50. Who was supposed to be standing guard in the hall?
51. What happened while Charlie was interviewing Paula?
52. What did they hear while waiting for the lights to go back on?
53. What was at the bottom of the stairs?
54. What did Olivia say happened to her?
55. What was Olivia actually doing?
56. What was Olivia's explanation for why and how she left her room?
57. Who confessed to being the long lost granddaughter of Thelma Turnbaum?
58. Who else confessed to a "relationship" with Thelma?
59. What kind of author is Olivia? Carol? Jerry?
60. Which author said, "Getting a good night's sleep is simply out of
the question for me"?
61. Who suggested steering clear of "that Merle character"?
62. Who suggested some different angles to the murder investigation for Charlie
to consider?
63. What else did Merle suggest?
64. What were Michael and Keith doing instead of standing guard?
65. When Charlie checked on the guests, what were the Bancrofts doing?
66. What were Olivia and Paula doing?
67. What was Clayborne doing?
68. What were Samuel and Carol Johnson doing?
69. What were Jerry Locke and Kurt Miller doing?
70. Which author and guest comprised the first team during the competition?
The second team? The third team? The fourth team?
71. Who did not participate in the competition?
72. what kind of authors did Charlie prefer to publish?
73. What were T. S. Turnbaum's New York Times bestselling psychological
suspense thrillers known for?
74. What did Carol say she was the queen of?
75. What kind of book was Paula planning to write?
76. What kind of book was Kurt writing, and what was the title?
77. What kind of book was Dinah writing, and what was the title?
78. What kind of book was Samuel writing, and what was the title?
79. Who did Charlie talk to during the second phase of the competition?
80. What was the activity that Charlie heard outside her office door?
81. What did Charlie discover when she went to the Bancrofts' room to
switch their camera?
82. After Clyde and Charlie exchanged stories about what they've been doing
for the last seven years, what did Clyde decide must be done?
83. What did Clyde give to Charlie before he left?
84. What did Clyde discover while he was missing in Canada for seven years?
85. What did Dinah suggest Charlie should use her home for?
86. Who was missing at lunchtime?
87. Who suggested that the weekend get-together should be an annual event?
88. What happened when Carol left to look for Samuel?
89. What did Carol say was to blame for her volatile temper, as well as her
weight gain?
90. Who came to Carol's defense? And why?
91. Did Carol want to continue mentoring Kurt? Why or why not?
92. What did Michael find after lunch?
93. What coincidence did Merle point out?
94. What did Charlie decide to do with the second body?
95. When Charlie was about to knock on the Bancrofts' room door, what did she
hear?
96. What was Charlie's answer when Carol asked her how she got through the loss
of her husband?
97. What system did Charlie tell everyone they were going to use to keep track
of each other?
98. What did Merle tell Charlie, which she didn't like?
99. Who did that lead Charlie to suspect?
100. What kind of award did Merle and Dinah debate winning?
101. Who said that all awards are rigged and normal everyday people never win
things like that?
102. Who discovered something in their strawberry smoothies at suppertime?
103. Why didn't anyone else smell the cyanide?
104. What happened as they were eating dessert at dinner?
105. Who disappeared?
106. What did they have to do for the last phase of The Million-Dollar Advance
on Royalties Competition?
107. What did Merle and Charlie find that narrowed the suspect list?
108. What did Olivia Conley suggest for getting through the second night?
109. What did everyone end up doing?
110. Why did Charlie pass out during the game?
111. Do all of Olivia's mystery novels involve poisoning?
112. Who solved both games of Clue?
113. What did Clayborne prefer to think of life's problems as?
114. What did Olivia suggest they do during the third game of Clue?
115. Who kept track of the clues during the real life game, which exposed some
patterns?
116. What did Olivia propose they do in order to check for bloodstains on what
everyone was wearing that morning?
117. What did they hear while in Charlie's office?
118. Did they solve the murders during the real life game?
119. What happened while Charlie was freshening up after being awake all night?
120. Who was the murderer?
121. What was in the trunk on the floor next to Kurt when he opened it?
122. Where did Charlie keep the name of the winner of The Million-Dollar Advance
on Royalties Competition before she put it in her jacket pocket?
123. when Merle helped retrieve the sealed envelope with the name of the winner,
what else did he discover?
124. What happened when the phone rang?
125. What had kept Clyde from returning sooner?
126. When did Charlie plan to finally announce the winner?
127. What did Michael and Paula do before Charlie was able to announce the
winner?
128. What did Keith then do?
129. What did Milo do?
130. Who won the competition? And why?
131. What did Charlie say she was going to do with the million dollars?
132. What did Clyde and Charlie do after their guests left?
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The Answers:
1. He disappeared on a remote
Canadian fishing trip.
2. Michael and Keith.
3. The family's pet parrot.
4. The plan is a reality TV show about a bunch of authors squaring off for a
chance at a million-dollar advance on royalties.
5. Charlie's real name is Charlotte Rothbury.
6. The competition is supposed to take place the last weekend in March.
7. They call their house the Redneck Mansion, because it consists of two
double-wide trailers connected to form an L-shaped, one-story, hard-to-heat
dream house.
8. Keith is the butler and Michael is the chef.
9. The mailman delivered submissions, bills and a registered envelope containing
the name of the winner of The Million-Dollar Advance on Royalties Competition.
10. She hid it in her wall safe.
11. The doorbell sounds like a long, loud bloodcurdling scream.
12. Merle and Dinah Bancroft arrived first.
13. The camera in the Bancrofts' room went snowy.
14. Olivia Conley had difficulty getting through the door in her
wheelchair.
15. Thelma Turnbaum appeared to be having a heart attack.
16. He removed his glasses and wiped them with his white handkerchief.
17. The book jackets hid the secret door to Charlie's office and the peepholes
that Charlie used to spy on the guests in the hall.
18. She wished to speak with the makeup man.
19. Carol Johnson complained.
20. Jerry Locke and his driver, Kurt Miller, were almost late.
21. She visited Merle Bancroft's room.
22. They engaged in a "mildly stimulating" exercise.
23. He tried to encourage the guests to mingle.
24. Olivia was trying to figure out where the basement door led.
25. She was upset that the telephone wasn't working.
26. He lit a firecracker and stuck it in the pewter candy dish and set the lid
back on it.
27. The dining room walls were adorned with hunting and fishing trophies,
including a ferocious looking black bear that stood on its hind legs.
28. Jerry Locke couldn't find his seat.
29. The first course was a choice of cream of fish soup or avocado salad.
30. She asked the authors at the table to autograph a copy of their books.
31. Merle Bancroft handed Carol his pen.
32. Keith did a daredevil bike jump from the roof of the house.
33. The glass eyeball from the moose head fell into Kurt's soup bowl, because
Charlie was hiding in the moose head to spy on the guests during dinner.
34. They were fighting over the lighter used to flame the ballotine of duck.
35. The lighter flared like a giant torch and a mounted trout on the wall caught
fire.
36. Thelma Turnbaum and Carol Johnson were fighting.
37. Clayborne Turnbaum said he was losing his appetite.
38. The lights went out.
39. They discovered Thelma Turnbaum had been stabbed with Merle's silver pen.
40. She suggested they conduct their own investigation because the phone lines
were still down, and they couldn't contact the police because they were
snowbound.
41. She told him to move the guests out of the dining room before they
contaminate the crime scene or damage any evidence.
42. Carol thought Charlie was the maid, because none of the authors had ever met
Charlie before and they all thought Charlie was a man.
43. She decided to process the crime scene and preserve the body.
44. Michael and Keith moved the body outside to the patio after wrapping her in
a tarp.
45. Carol Johnson screamed.
46. Kurt Miller reads romance novels.
47. Charlie saw snowshoe tracks.
48. It was named Snowstorm Thelma.
49. She sent Keith outside, and he discovered the snowshoe tracks had
disappeared, along with Thelma's body.
50. Michael and Keith both were supposed to be standing guard.
51. The lights went out again.
52. They heard a loud crash followed by a thumping sound on the basement
stairs.
53. Olivia's wheelchair lay on its side.
54. A miracle happened to her.
55. She was actually snooping around in the basement.
56. She decided to practice her newfound mobility and couldn't resist the
temptation to do a little exploring.
57. Paula confessed to being her long lost granddaughter.
58. Merle Bancroft confessed to "jumping in bed" with her.
59. Olivia is a by-the-outline author. Carol is a by-the-seat-of-her-pants
author. And Jerry is a true crime author.
60. Carol Johnson said that.
61. Samuel Johnson suggested that.
62. Merle Bancroft suggested them.
63. He suggested the perfect exercise for unwinding.
64. They were playing cards with Paula.
65. They were discussing how they would spend the million dollars, and
Dinah revealed that she didn't want to retire to a Caribbean Island.
66. They were discussing the fact that Paula would need to go back to her
old job now that Olivia had her mobility back.
67. Clayborne was apparently sleeping.
68. Samuel was trying to sleep while Carol was reading a Stephen King
novel.
69. They were snoring loudly.
70. Merle and Paula were the first team. Carol and Kurt were the second
team. Olivia and Samuel were the third team. And Jerry and Dinah were the fourth
team.
71. Clayborne Turnbaum didn't participate.
72. She preferred first-time authors.
73. They were known for her trademark foul language and shocking sex scenes.
74. She said she was the queen of sexual tension.
75. She was writing a children's book.
76. He was writing a steamy romance entitled The Trojan Love Affair.
77. She was writing a cozy mystery entitled Guess Who's Coming to Tea and
Crumpets.
78. He was writing a comedy entitled What Color is Your Underwear.
79. She talked to Clayborne Turnbaum.
80. Samuel was leaving the Bancrofts' room where he and Dinah overcame his
writer's block.
81. She discovered that her husband, Clyde, was still alive and had
returned home.
82. He decided he had to go for the police.
83. He gave her a handgun.
84. He discovered electrum, a naturally occurring gold-silver alloy.
85. She suggested a writers weekend retreat.
86. Samuel was missing.
87. Olivia made the suggestion.
88. She screamed when she found him stabbed to death with a butcher's
knife.
89. She blamed menopausal mood swings for which her doctor prescribed
hormone therapy.
90. Kurt defended her, because he knew Carol was planning a surprise
Hawaiian vacation for their twenty-fifth anniversary next month.
91. Yes, she did, because changing partners might throw off his creativity.
92. He found Merle's notes with a particularly suspicious line that read,
"The victim is killed with a butcher's knife to maximize my crime scene
investigation research."
93. He pointed out that every time they're served a dessert, someone ends up
murdered.
94. She decided to leave the body in the room with the window open so the room
would be cold enough to preserve it.
95. She heard Paula's voice.
96. She stayed busy with two young sons.
97. They used the buddy system plus one.
98. He said the suspects could be narrowed down to someone who is familiar with
the layout of the house and knows where things are kept in the kitchen.
99. She realized it was only her motherly instincts that kept her from
considering Michael and Keith as suspects. But Clyde was another possibility
that loomed large in her mind.
100. They both wanted to win the Edgar Alan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers
of America organization.
101. Carol Johnson said it.
102. Olivia Conley smelled cyanide, a bitter almond odor.
103. Only twenty percent of the population has the ability to smell cyanide.
104. The lights went out again.
105. Carol was hiding under the table.
106. They would actually pen some words to their literary masterpieces.
107. They found a cloth table napkin under the dining room table.
108. She suggested a pajama party.
109. Carol, Keith, Dinah and Kurt played Monopoly. Olivia, Merle and Charlie
played Clue. Clayborne worked on a jigsaw puzzle. Jerry watched video movies.
And Michael and Paula played Checkers.
110. Olivia told them that cyanide was used in the mining of gold and silver
ore.
111. No. Her next novel is about a serial strangler.
112. Charlie solved them both.
113. He preferred to think of them as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.
114. She suggested they bring the game to real life and solve the murders.
115. Charlie kept track of the clues.
116. She proposed that they pay a little visit to the rooms and inspect
everyone's clothes.
117. They heard Paula pleading for her life.
118. No. They were no further along than before.
119. She figured out who the murderer was.
120. From the moment Clayborne had arrived with Thelma on Friday afternoon, he'd
been casing the house, calculating his moves, sizing up his victims, and spying
the locations of the hidden cameras.
121. Thelma's body was stuffed into the trunk.
122. She kept it in a wall safe in her office.
123. He discovered that Charlie was carrying a concealed handgun.
124. Merle made a dive for the gun that slid down Charlie's leg. Charlie slammed
both her fists backward into Clayborne's groin area. And there was a gunshot.
125. The sheriff didn't believe Clyde's story, because he was supposed to be
dead.
126. Two days later after she returned from the hospital.
127. They announced they were getting married and going to open a new restaurant
in Ohio.
128. He did a bike jump over the four parked cars using the wheelchair ramp he
had constructed for Olivia Conley.
129. He flew into the room and landed on the drapes.
130. Charlie won, because her dust jacket blurbs were the best writing sample
the judges read.
131. She was going to return it.
132. They tried out the "mildly stimulating" exercise in the round
room.
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