Solution
The Sinister Story of the Beast of Bloodborough
THE EXPLANATION
Chief Inspector Bungler tells you that a body has been found next to the river but it is so badly mauled that it can't be identified.
There have long been rumours in Bloodborough about a mysterious beast that attacks people in the town, but is this a case of the supernatural or is there a more logical answer?
Go to the river (the place where the body was found) and zoom in on the picture until you find a footprint.
Next to the footprint is cigar but with some writing on it.
Go to the police station and enter "CD532" to have the cigar examined.
The lab tells you that the cigar is from the "Santa Clara" region of Cuba.
Go to the college website where you see that you can post an advert to appear in the college magazine.
There are a few different advert templates to choose from and you must select advert number 3.
Enter the words "Cuba" and "Santa Clara"
You also need to enter your email address and college ID.
The
college ID can be found by visiting the link from the warehouse to the rehearsal rooms where someone has left a card there, according to the owner.
Once you have placed the correct advert you receive a response from "Georgi Rodriguez" which contains a link to his CV online.
Take a look at the CV and you will find his phone number.
Go to the telephone box and call Georgi Rodriguez.
When you speak to him he says that he was down by the river on the night of the murder but he swears that he didn't kill anyone.
He says that there was a strange smell down there that night.. tar.
Barney detects a scent which starts near the bottom tree to the left of the river on the map.
You are told to click 11 times to follow the trail and when you do this you see Barney following the scent which ends further north near the river.
Click on the point where the scent ends and you will see another image with a footprint.
There is a scrap of paper with the words "Henry Young Rentals" written on it.
Go to the Gym website where you find a link for "Yelp" the new business directory.
Go to the site and search for "Henry Young Rentals" to find the number and then to the telephone box to give them a call.
Henry Young tells you that someone rented a boat from him on the night of the murder but he paid in cash and he never saw the customer..
He tells you that the boat looked like an animal had been on board. He also gives you a link to look at some property which was left behind.
The link takes you to a stamp collection but there is one missing.. The Inverted Jenny - it has been removed.
There is also a bank card and a strange diagram.
The diagram is a clue to the pin number of the card. The shapes depict international maritime signal flags and the numbers depict the wavelength of the colour in the flag.
When solved the pin is.. 7326.
If you also look at the insurance brokers' website you will see that "James Henderson" has in interest in stamp collecting.
Go to the bank where there is an ATM.
Enter the name "James Henderson" and the pin 7326.
The card is for the insurance brokers business account. You see that the business was not doing well but Jeremy Clyde the director has just paid in a lot of money.
There are also entries for MIGHTY MONSTER PET FOOD.
Murderer : Jeremy Clyde
Motive: The business was going down the pan so he murdered James Henderson and stole his stamp collection. He sold the Inverted Jenny and paid the money from the sale into the business account. He used a vicious dog that he had trained to kill.
We accepted various different phrases that sum up the motive.The winner, selected at random from all of the correct entries is:
Thomas Stanford, UK
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