Author Archives: Markham

Shortly after opening the four boxes in the flour cupboard, we examined the clock and assembled it by attaching the hour and minute hand to it. The pendulum was actually a stud which could be pressed like the switches on the box in which we had found the lantern. It seemed reasonable to assume that […]

The riddle given in my previous installment, the one included with the latter collection of diary entries, pointed us to an English yew writing desk (of which the upper drawers were real and the lower drawers were false) and within, the leathern pouch mentioned in the diary. Within the pouch was the afore-referenced letter from […]

These are the diary pages we found most recently. They all appear in the same masculine script as one of the writers from the diary excerpts we discovered in the beginning. 1 July 1855 Today’s explorations took me beyond Honeysuckle Lake and off of the solid ground in pursuit of Bog Bryg, which I have […]

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 […]