by Marion Marigold
Sundial Publishing, 1988
Violet cover
all checked corner case rooms had a low case clue found in the rooms
Patio Nook Office Pantry
buried beside west bridge
-> micro chip
Route 8 depart keep left to tanner fork ↱ dead end record each stop on the way
8, 7, 3, 10, 1, 13
Royal Station, Angel Tower, Aries Crossing, Tanner Fork, Oris Train Hall, Dead End
-> Safehouse
x>y>z>a>b>c
red: page a, word x (red prince, page 10, word 8: turn)
green: page c, word a (realm & rune, page 13, word 10: scorched)
violet: page b, word y (a new clue, page 1, word 7: sundial)
blue: page z, word x (the fixed stars, page 3, word 8: base)
use a lighter on the sundial base in the apple orchard, then turn the bases to 1:30(?)
Cover
Pages 0-1
A NEW CLUE
by
MARION MARIGOLD
SUNDIAL PUBLISHING
1988
Pages 2-3
All he needed was to find a new clue,
If he found a new clue, he'd know what to do,
If he knew what to do, he'd likely tell you,
For you are looking for a new clue too!
Pages 4-5
He had retraced his sketches and studied the files,
Reviewed all his cases and gone through the piles
Of the evidence present and precedents evident,
And retraced his steps, as it stretched on for miles.
Pages 6-7
He had looked high and low in all of the rooms,
He had searched every corner in each of the tombs,
In this particular case, he had checked every space.
If he found a new clue, he'd know what to do.
Pages 8-9
He looked and he looked under beds and in nooks,
He questioned the maids, he questioned the cooks,
It was already over when he spoke to the chauffeur,
Who told him new clues were found only in books.
Pages 10-11
So tome after tome that the library loaned,
And the book that he had that he already owned,
Were searched from their covers all the way through,
If he found a new clue, he'd know what to do.
Pages 12-13
He changed all the letter in the lines that he found,
He checked all the colors of the spines that were bound,
He doubled the meaning of each seasonal greeting,
And found that the diction of each word was sound.
Pages 14-15
He stayed up all night and studied the maps,
He laid out the floorplans and measured the gaps,
And if his directory was considered a trajectory,
It was nothing short of a full mental lapse.
Pages 16-17
"A man obsessed, and cuckoo too",
They would say as he would wander through.
The best medicine is not yet evidence,
If he found a new clue, he'd know what to do.
Pages 18-19
And having read this book so many times,
Having scoured each of its cryptic lines,
Have you exhausted your search?
Have you seen all the signs?
Pages 20-21
Or is there perhaps something new,
Something overlooked but now in view,
Have you finally found it? Could it really be true?
If it's a new clue, you know what to do.