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Case file 06HEISTWATSON: A clean case. Read carefully.

A Goose on Regent Street

A countess's sapphire vanished from a Strand hotel and a plumber went to prison for it. On Christmas morning it turned up in a goose.

The scene

The Cosmopolitan, a grand old hotel on the Strand, London, in Christmas week: Regent Street hung with lights, and the Covent Garden poulterers selling geese by the dozen.

Target: The Dowager Countess of Morcar. Who robbed The Dowager Countess of Morcar?

An original heist for the Watson tier. Read the statements and evidence on the floor, rule out suspects, then name the thief, the motive and the two cards that prove it.

The suspects

  • Joe HornerPlumber, on remand
  • Bobby RyanFloor butler
  • Rosie CusackThe Countess's maid
  • Tom BaxterFloor captain