The Ragamuffin Mystery Trivia Quiz

Answer: He has to go to America on business

Mr. Lynton was going to do all the driving, towing the new caravan, but he is called away to America for an important business trip. Mrs. Lynton agrees to drive instead, even though she is nervous of towing the caravan.

Answer: Aunty Pat

Snubby is an orphan, so he spends his school holidays with various relatives in turn. At the start of the story he is at Aunty Pat's house, with Loony his dog.

Answer: Her sister is very ill in hospital

Mrs. Lynton's sister, Aunty Pat, falls from a ladder and hits her head on the ground. She is very ill indeed, and calls for her sister, so Mrs. Lynton is found via a message on the radio news.
She leaves immediately to be with Pat, leaving Roger and Diana with Miss Pepper at the caravan.

Answer: Cooking good, very good cooking!

From the moment the party meet Mrs. Jones she constantly manages to get the phrase "Cooking good, very good cooking!" into everything she says to them. Luckily the food at the Inn is indeed "very good cooking".

Answer: Goose

Dafydd is a strange child who seems to get into mischief constantly. His pet goose Waddle goes everywhere with him, and isn't afraid of anyone or anything.
Dafydd found Waddle as a gosling with a broken leg. He nursed it back to health and Waddle is devoted to Dafydd.

Answer: Morgan the cripple

A sinister man mistakes Snubby for Morgan's nephew and snatches Snubby's own letter away.
The children spot the 'real' nephew, Dai, waiting for the man, and Snubby persuades him to hand over the real letter.

Answer: Alarm clock

Dafydd is absolutely fascinated by the tick-tock sound of the little clock. The first time the alarm goes off Waddle is frightened by it, but Dafydd doesn't care, and the clock soon becomes his most treasured possession.

Answer: Professor Hallinan and Sir Richard Ballinor

The children establish that there is something strange about the two men, and Barney's father finds out that both Professor Hallinan and Sir Richard Ballinor are actually in London; the two men at the Inn must be impostors.

Answer: In Miss Pepper's bedroom, under the chest

The end of the passage is the reason why Mr. Jones didn't want Miss Pepper and Diana to sleep in "the room with the view". Their presence made it much more difficult for the gang to skulk about under the Inn.

Answer: Hiding stolen money

Roger and Barney find bundles of bank notes, stolen in an armed raid on a security van. The gang had hidden them in the small room at the end of the secret passage until it was safe to launder the money.