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Escape Key · Case File 05

Lady Evelyn’sParadox

Professor Allen Kingsley has not been seen in some months. What he left behind is a chart marked in seven places, four lines gouged into a rented wall, and a torn page listing six locations that do not appear on any map of the city.

His daughter has assembled the lot into a dossier and asks only that you read it in order. Three chapters. Three answers. Each one opens the next.

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The Seven Marks

Kingsley’s chart · provenance unknown

Lady Evelyn’s search for her father, the esteemed Professor Allen Kingsley, continues, and she believes clues to his whereabouts may lie with the leaders of the following seven countries.

The chart came out of his study rolled inside a curtain rod. No borders named, no cities marked — only seven question marks in his own hand, and a list, in this order, in the margin.

— from the case notes of Lady Evelyn Kingsley
  1. Brazil
  2. Estonia
  3. Laos
  4. Finland
  5. Australia
  6. Singapore
  7. Tunisia
Plate I — the professor’s chart. Tap to enlarge.

Where do the seven send you?

Chapter I — opened

Chapter II is sealedAnswer Chapter I and Evelyn will send on the next of it.

The Storage Unit

A note in Evelyn’s hand · recovered on site

She found the unit within the day — paid twelve months forward, in cash, under a name that was not his. Empty but for dust, a folding chair, and four lines cut into the back wall at eye height.

Her note came by post the following morning, written in a hurry and not entirely dry.

Handwritten note: Dad was here but has clearly left. Found this scratched into the wall of the storage unit he had rented. Below it, four lines of scrawled figures.
Enclosure II-a — Evelyn’s note

Transcribed from the wall

S – 166 W – 207 S – 108 S – 98.7

Plate II — the counties, for reference

Where has the professor gone?

Chapter II — opened

Chapter III is sealedThe last of the dossier waits on the answer to Chapter II.

The Torn Page

Leaf removed from the professor’s diary

The city keeps him well. Six calls in as many days, each entered in the diary under a name that belongs to no street here — and then the page after it torn out and taken.

Whatever the sixth visit told him, he went somewhere on the strength of it. The six know where.

Handwritten: A torn page from father's diary listed six coded locations that he visited while he was here, but where did he go afterward?
Enclosure III-a — Evelyn’s hand
Plate III — the page itself. Tap to enlarge.

Six coded locations

Bye Bread
2 · 4
All Mouths
3 · 6
Nightmare Elks
6 · 8
Able Hickory Pups
8
Eau Hoopers
3 · 8
Barry Overstocks Tableclocks
6 · 13 · 23
Plate IV — the ground he covered

And where did he go afterward?

Chapter III — opened

The dossier is not finishedThree answers, and Evelyn will tell you what she makes of all this.

Only Time Will Tell

Closing note

Congratulations on solving this mini puzzle — maybe we will one day find out what happened to the enigmatic professor.

— Evelyn Kingsley

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