BOOK 6 - BOOBY-TRAPPED
Chapter 1 - That Gun Rings a
Bell
Mr. Boddy has installed a new
doorbell that sounds like a gunshot. Meanwhile, Mrs. Peacock arrives with
Blackmail in mind. Miss Scarlet is the last person to arrive and the gunshot
doorbell is heard, but when Mr. Boddy answers the door Miss Scarlet says she
hasn't even rung the bell yet. Sure enough, Mrs. Peacock is lying shot on the
floor!! WHO KILLED MRS. PEACOCK??
Chapter 2 - A Dynamite Dinner
The Mansion next to Mr. Boddy's is due for demolition to make way for a new Golf
Course. When he hears about this, Professor Plum confesses that he had a message
to impart and forgot to pass it on (As usual!!). It appears that the demolition
crew have planted a bomb in the wrong Mansion and it is due to blow up the
following day at 2 o'clock. The guests find the end of the fuse and plan to
follow it to its source so they can get rid of the bomb. Unfortunately, Plum
thinks that the quickest way to find the bomb is to light the fuse. So while all
the guests are running after the fuse trying to put it out, Mr. Green stays with
Plum to try and get him to remember which room the bomb is in!!
WHERE IS THE BOMB??
Chapter 3 - The Scarlet Key
Mr. Boddy is off to Zillionaire Island for the annual Zillionaires' Conference.
Foolishly, he has five spare colour coded keys to his Mansion and offers them to
his friends so they can use the Mansion while he is away. Everyone fights to get
a key, especially since Mr. Boddy has just acquired a genuine Vinny Van-Go-Go
Sculpture worth millions. WHO STOLE THE SCULPTURE??
Chapter 4 - Password, Please
Mr. Boddy starts PC Banking so that he control his Millions from home. His
guests think this is a great way to transfer Mr. Boddy's money into their own
accounts!! WHO IS THE THIRD THIEF?? WHAT IS
THE PASSWORD??
Chapter 5 - Tall Tales
Miss Scarlet and Mrs. Peacock arrive at the Mansion to see an injured person
being taken away by ambulance and then discover someone has been murdered. They
try to piece together what has happened by the small pieces of information they
can gather. WHO WAS MURDERED??
Chapter 6 - Caught Blue-Handed
Mr. Boddy has locked all his rare and valuable gramophone records in the
Ballroom and banned any of his guests from going in. He says the only people
allowed in will be the decorators who are coming the next day to paint the
Ballroom. Not surprisingly, the local paint shop has a few extra customers the
following day buying Ballroom paint!! NAME THE
THIEF??
Chapter 7 - The Robot Butler
Mr. Boddy buys a robot Butler, Horace, to give Mrs. White a helping hand.
Unfortunately, Mr. Boddy has only had time to programme the Robot to obey three
of the guests voices. Later, one of the guests goes to Horace and orders him to
kill Colonel Mustard. The guest tells the Horace that Mustard has been
threatening to tell the Police about a robbery the guest has committed.
WHO ORDERED HORACE TO KILL MUSTARD??
Chapter 8 - One of You is The Murderer
Miss Scarlet has been killed in The Lounge. Mr. Boddy gathers all the suspects
together. He starts by saying that everybody is wearing the wrong bathrobe. This
is because Professor Plum forgot to bring one and a lot of swapping and
pilfering has been going on resulting in everyone having a bathrobe except Mr.
Green. However, during the changing one of the guests inadvertently found an
incriminating diary in someone's bathrobe and planned to do a little bit of
blackmailing. Unfortunately, the killer went after the blackmailer in order to
kill them but by then, Miss Scarlet had the blackmailer's bathrobe and was
murdered instead. WHO IS THE MURDERER??
Chapter 9 - Mr. Boddy's Sure-Fire System
Mr. Boddy decides that, for safety reasons, all weapons will now have to be
signed in and out. While explaining the system to Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Green is
murdered by a blunt instrument!! WHO KILLED MR.
GREEN??
Chapter 10 - Booby-Trapped
Because Mr. Boddy has installed security cameras at the Mansion he has film of
all his guests committing crimes. They all plan revenge by booby-trapping The
Study. However, no one knows about anyone else's booby-trap and all the guests
end up knocked out or trapped leaving Mr. Boddy to, unknowingly, enter the
murderous Study!! WHO KILLED MR. BODDY??