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Right Up Your Alley

 

Study Guide Questions

1. On what day did the Prologue take place?

2. What was Mary Harris' profession?

3. What slogan did Mary's oversized square canvas bag sport?

4. Was Mary rich or poor?

5. What was Mary allergic to?

6. What was the name of the company Mary was working for?

7. What was Mary's last gesture in life?

8. What is the name of the investigative service of which Tim is a partner?

9. Describe Brent Weaver's favorite T-shirt.

10. What does Tim do every morning to prepare for his day?

11. What is the name of Brent's and Tim's secretary?

12. What did Brent say was right up Tim's alley?

13. What career change was Tim planning to make? Explain why.

14. Who was in charge of decor at Irish Eyes? And what was her favorite color? 

15. What was the first thing Tim did to prepare for the missing person case?

16. What kind of jobs did Brent Weaver do, which were the bread and butter of Irish Eyes? 

17. What did Tim need to do which was normally his last option when searching for a missing person?

18. What did visiting the morgue give Tim a case of?

19. What was the name of the doctor at the morgue?

20. What did the doctor convince Tim to do while he was at the morgue?

21. What subject was Tim writing his research paper about? 

22. Where did Tim go for lunch after visiting the morgue? And who did he meet?

23. What did the Post-it note from Patty tell Tim to do when he got back? 

24. Why did Rhonda continue sending emails to Tim?

25. What did Tim do during the weekend to solve the missing person case?

26. What kind and color of car does Tim drive?

27. Who did Tim talk to at the apartment complex?

28. What was the name of Tim's missing person? And what was her roommate's name?

29. What did Mary die of?

30. What was the unusual gadget that caught Tim's attention sitting on the counter top? 

31. Who was the only lead in Tim's search for Bernadette Higgins?

32. Why did Patty page Tim while he was having lunch with Clarence Drib? What was the real reason?

33. What did Brent insist was a requirement in the P. I. business? 

34. What kind of gun was Tim learning to use?

35. Where did Tim keep his gun when he wasn't using it at range practice every Monday afternoon?

36. What about Tim was an inside joke among the fellow trainees at the range? 

37. What had Tim witnessed that caused him to be the subject of local news coverage?

38. How did Tim manage to remove a makeup compact, while searching his missing person's apartment, without being detected or spoiling the fingerprints on it?

39. Who had designed the floor plan for Tim's attic apartment?

40. What idea had Brent added to the floor plan in an attempt to help Tim overcome his fear of heights? 

41. What did Tim see when the autopsy video was over? 

42. What was the name of the records department manager at Clayton Investment and Finance Corporation?

43. What were the two conditions that Mary included in her contract when she hired on at C. I. & F. C.?

44. What did Dennis Lakey give to Tim after he questioned him?

45. What was the name of the janitorial service that Clayton Investment and Finance Corporation used? And what was the manager's name?

46. What was the name of the restaurant where Tim met Trisha Garing? 

47. What color were Trisha's eyes? 

48. What nervous habit does Tim have?

49. What did Patty do when she was annoyed?

50. What special occasion were Brent and Patty celebrating when they invited Tim to dinner?

51. Why did Mary Harris' lawyer record their conversation when Tim paid him a visit?

52. To whom did Mary Harris leave her money that was left after her Last Will and Testament was carried out?

53. What did Tim purchase in preparation for his first date with Trisha?

54. What was Tim trying to decide when Trisha met him at The Better Bio Natural Products Store? 

55. What did Tim and Trisha do on their first date?

56. Why was Tim late for his meeting with Mr. Clayton at Clayton Finance and Investment Corporation? 

57. What "little problem" did Mr. Clayton want Tim to help solve?

58. What were the names of Mary Harris' two aliases used in the embezzlement scheme?

59. What kind of dinners did Tim usually eat?

60. Where did Patty and Tim go in the rain while Brent was asleep? Why?

61. What was an understood agreement about Patty between Tim and Brent that Tim violated? 

62. What was Trisha's choice for a date? 

63. How did Tim figure out that Trisha was older than him?

64. What was waiting for them when Tim and Trisha stopped off at Irish Eyes for Trisha to use the bathroom?

65. What was Tim thinking about on August 2 that made it hard to concentrate on his research paper?

66. Who did Tim call on the telephone? And what questions did he ask?

67. What was sitting on the back of his desk that finally caught Tim's attention? What was in it? 

68. What did Clarence always say just before something bad happened? 

69. What was one of Brent's "staying alive" rules that Tim decided to follow? 

70. Where was Tim going to look for the "bait?"

71. Who caught him? And what happened?

72. Who did Tim see the next day outside the postal service building?

73. What conclusions did Tim draw after Patty used the hand lotion sitting on his desk?

74. How long does paper retain fingerprints?

75. What chemical is used to bring out fingerprints on paper?

76. Who did Tim suspect of getting away with the murder of Mary Harris?

77. What did Tim use for his second attempt to bait a trap for Bernadette Higgins?

78. What did Tim ask Clarence to do to help bait the second trap for Bernadette Higgins?

79. What did Trisha do to Tim's kitchen before she cooked a meal there?

80. What did Trisha call her style of cooking?

81. How did Patty get even with Brent? And what was she getting even with him for? 

82. In which room did Tim and Trisha end up watching the video movie she brought?

83. What did Trisha drink with their popcorn during the movie?

84. What did Trisha feel was coming between their relationship?

85. What happened to Tim's friend, Clarence, during the Saturday night storm?

86. Who was spending the night with Tim when Patty told him about Clarence's misfortune?

87. What two big events in Tim's life made him think less about the Bernadette Higgins case?

88. What favor did Tim do for Clarence after he ate lunch with him and Waldo? 

89. How did Trisha surprise Tim when he came home from class late? And what was the shocking information she shared with him?

90. What did Tim decide to celebrate the following Saturday?

91. What was Tim's newest research topic, which caused the young assistant librarian to raise her eyebrows?

92. What did Tim begin to fear on the night Trisha left him a surprise in his apartment?

93. What revealed Bernadette's secret hiding place?

94. Who came to Tim's aid?

95. What was the project that Brent worked on with Clarence?

96. What event had taken place one year ago?

Where the Answers are Found

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2. Page 2
3. Page 1
4. Page 2
5. Page 3
6. Page 1, 4 and 55
7. Page 7
8. Page 9 and 10
9. Page 9 and 258
10. Page 10
11. Page 9
12. Page 10
13. Page 10, 11 and 12
14. Page 13 and 50
15. Page 17
16. Page 18
17. Page 18
18. Page 19
19. Page 20
20. Page 21-25
21. Page 22-25, 30, 174 and 184
22. Page 27
23. Page 30
24. Page 32
25. Page 35
26. Page 36
27. Page 36
28. Page 37
29. Page 39
30. Page 42
31. Page 43
32. Page 44 and 45
33. Page 45
34. Page 45
35. Page 45
36. Page 46
37. Page 47
38. Page 48
39. Page 51
40. Page 51 and 213
41. Page 52
42. Page 58
43. Page 60
44. Page 61
45. Page 62
46. Page 64, 65 and 78
47. Page 66, 67, 97 and 256
48. Page 72 and 257
49. Page 73, 151 and 247
50. Page 76
51. Page 82
52. Page 84
53. Page 86
54. Page 91 and 92
55. Page 93-98
56. Page 114 and 115
57. Page 115-119
58. Page 121
59. Page 125, 153 and 155
60. Page 130 and 131
61. Page 132 and 176
62. Page 138-140
63. Page 94, 138 and 141
64. Page 139
65. Page 143-146
66. Page 144 and 145
67. Page 146 and 147
68. Page 149
69. Page 155 and 156
70. Page 156 and 157
71. Page157 and 158 
72. Page 164
73. Page 169
74. Page 172
75. Page 173
76. Page 183, 185, 195 and 200
77. Page 198
78. Page 200
79. Page 209
80. Page 210
81. Page 214 and 242
82. Page 217-219
83. Page 218
84. Page 223
85. Page 225
86. Page 222 and 224
87. Page 245
88. Page 251
89. Page 253 and 256
90. Page 258
91. Page 259 and 260
92. Page 263
93. Page 277
94. Page 283
95. Page 292
96. Page 300

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