“Twenty bucks isn’t much compared to what the missing painting is worth. Still, you have always fantasized about being a detective and this is your chance, and twenty bucks is better than nothing. “You’re on!” you say.
“Great!” says the older officer, “We’ll call ahead to headquarters to see if they can pick up the bike messenger. Then you can help identify him and make sure that is who went up to the 31st floor.”
When you and the officers arrive at the police station they bike messenger has already been picked up and is waiting in an interrogation room. It is indeed the first person that you saw going up to the 31st floor. You wait at the older officer’s desk while he and his partner go to question the bike messenger. About 30 minutes later the two frustrated officers return with a box and two frowns.
“He has completely denied stealing the painting and we can’t seem to get anything out of him.” We’re going to have to let him go if we can’t find any evidence to hold him,” says the older officer.
He sets the box down on the table. “This is what the bike messenger was found with,” the younger officer says as he gestures towards the box, “Wish there was a painting in there.”
“Maybe there isn’t a painting, but perhaps there is a clue or two that will help us find the painting,“ you say as you excitedly peer into the box. There are four items in the box.
An unfinished Sudoku puzzle.
A receipt from a sushi restaurant.
A book called Precious Cargo.
A Key Chain.
You ponder over the contents of the box for a bit and then a broad smile appears on your face. As you look at the older officer you say, “You sir, are about to get promoted, and I’m about to be $20 richer. Let’s go get that painting!”
