Category Archives: Treasure hunt

I mentioned earlier that three of the four songs we had discovered to this point were accompanied by a single riddle each. I reproduce them here: With Danse Macabre: Past a door with no hinge With Victor’s Solo: A staff which supports no man while he holds it A dust which grows into such a staff […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]