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1. What was the vocation of Philip Boyes, Harriet Vane's ex lover?
2. Which members of the jury held up the expected verdict for six and a half hours, and led the foreman of the jury to exclaim "We shall never agree, my lord, not if we was to stay here till Domesday."
3. When Lord Peter proposed to Harriet in prison, she eyed him remorsefully. How many proposals had she already received from "imbeciles who wanted to marry anyone who was at all notorious"?
4. With whom had Philip Boyes been staying at the time when he died?
5. In which tea shop in Windle did Miss Climpson strike up a profitable friendship with Mrs Wrayburn's nurse?
6. Which of these poisons did Harriet NOT purchase in her researches for her latest novel?
7. Bill Rumm, one of Lord Peter's more unusual acquantainces, provided Miss Murchison with useful tips on breaking into a locked deed box. However, what was the alluring supper which Mrs Rumm provided for her visitors after the service and the instruction session?
8. Which poetry book, together with Dixon Mann's "Forensic Medicine" and the "Trial of Florence Maybrick" helped provide Lord Peter with the murderer's identity?
9. Miss Climpson sets up a seance to find out where Mrs Wrayburn has hidden her will, using a control called Pongo. At the end of the sitting the alleged location is given an initial letter "because it opened up a particularly wide field of search." What was the initial letter chosen by Miss Climpson?
10. The roses on the judge's bench at the first trial were "crimson, like splashes of blood." What flowers were on the judge's bench at the second hearing, where Miss Vane was acquitted?
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