Returning to the matter of the paper scraps, each bearing a print of a telegraph key, which were included with the sheet of music whose song produced the red light in the lantern, I proceed to render the text of each. Shine the light of death… The more you make of them, the more you […]
Author Archives: Markham
William’s Favorites | Magical Treasure Hunt 2013
The sheet music folder labelled “William’s Favorites” held only four staff pages, but the staves were empty on every sheet. Superimposed over each collection of staves, however, was a circle of numerals, ranging from zero through nine, in a regular pattern of colors: red, orange, green, and blue. Each circle consisted of twelve numerals with […]
Finding William | Magical Treasure Hunt 2013
Receiving six days in seven, always locked but always open. Solution: It took no little puzzling, I assure you, to understand that this riddle referenced the postbox. (No letters on Sundays, and although it is always open to deposits, it is always locked against withdrawals but when the master of the house collects the letters.) […]
Diary Excerpts | Magical Treasure Hunt 2013
I begin with a reproduction of the diary excerpts we discovered. The first was a single leaf, rendered in a decidedly masculine script: 8 February 1908 I see from the date of my last entry that I have not opened this book — or, with but a single exception, this house — in passing 30 […]