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Answer: Chief Brown is proud of his son, but he believes people may not accept that the best detective in town is only an eighth grader. Leroy also prefers not to appear different from other children.
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Answer: Suspicion was not proof. The clerk was not certain enough to testify, Davenport vanished, and searches did not locate the jewellery. The police therefore lacked evidence strong enough to prove the robbery.
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Answer: The will itself is not suspicious. The mystery comes from the separate calendar sheet clipped to it. By attaching an unexplained note to a normal document, the writer directs attention towards a hidden message.
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Answer: The message is written on a calendar sheet, suggesting days or dates, and it is intended for Davenport, who would be looking for the hidden jewellery. These clues point Leroy towards a coded location.
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Answer: He first studies the available clues, forms a precise hypothesis, and asks only for the missing fact needed to test it. This shows focused reasoning rather than guessing.
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Answer: Davenport already knows he is looking for the jewellery’s hiding place, and the note is addressed to him. That context would encourage him to decode the weekday pattern and use the missing fifth word as a location clue.
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Answer: The first four words establish the decoding rule. The fifth word produces a real object—fir—that exists in Nolan’s nursery, so it converts the word pattern into an exact place to search.
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Answer: He combines memory, language knowledge, close attention to physical clues, awareness of context and logical testing. He also remains calm enough to ignore misleading literal meanings.
