Words Oct-Dec: Super Sleuth

[Anne ✨]

Our newest scavenger hunt theme is Super Sleuth!

We've updated the criteria based on input from last round:

Guidelines:
- Challenge will run 3 months Oct 1 - Dec 31
- You will choose your level for # words you will claim per book:
SHERLOCK HOLMES = ONE WORD PER BOOK (26 books to complete the list)
OR
DR WATSON = TWO WORDS PER BOOK (13 books to complete the list)
- You can find the word in the title, inside cover, or any page inside, but you must read the book to claim a word from it.
- The word ending doesn't have to be in exact form. (ie. investigate or investigation are both ok, instinct or instincts are both ok).

Tracking
- Include the book, the page or chapter, and the sentence in which you found the word:
Examples:
- sleuth: The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill, Title
- clues: The Sleuth Sisters by Maggie Pill, Chapter 1: "...Faye laid a proposal before me, watching my face for clues to my reaction."

The Words
clue
crime
dark
detective
flashback
footprint
guess
guilty
hidden
hunch
innocent
instincts
investigate
motive
noise
problem
proof
puzzling
quiet
secret
sign
sleuth
solve
suspect
victim
witness

Happy Sleuthing for all these words!!

[Tiina]

Oh, I do hope I get them all unlike last month!

The Words
CLUE
CRIME in The Diary of a Bookseller pg 230 They explained that, although there are elements of it that are not particularly suitable for child to be reading, they didn't think that he was old enough to understand the full implications of the 'crime' for which Tom Robinson was being tried.
DARK
DETECTIVE
FLASHBACK in Night Watch pg 272 Vimes shuddered, when he saw the crowd and had a flashback, which was probably a flash forward, to all the domestic disputes he's attended over the years.
FOOTPRINT in The Dead Mountaineer's Inn at 4.3% "Hes just here, I remembered. He doesn't drink, he doesn't eat - he just leaves footprints."
GUESS
GUILTY
HIDDEN in Silk at 37.7% Hidden in his baggage he carried thousands of silkworm eggs, that is, the future of Lavilledieu, and work for hundreds of people, and wealth for a tenth of them.
HUNCH
INNOCENT in Sumchi pg 14 He would have a cheerful, even wicked gleam in his eye on those mornings, behaving just as if he and I were fellow members of some dangerous gang and only temporarily engaged in such a relatively innocent pastime as cooking ourselves illicit double omelettes.
INSTINCTS in The Mysterious Affair at Styles at 55.7% "Do not fear. Speak your mind. You should always pay attention tot your instincts."
INVESTIGATE in The Talented Mr. Ripley at 80.5% "There's also the advantage that they speak Italian and they can get around everywhere and investigate all kinds of suspects. I suppose the man you sent for speaks Italian?
MOTIVE in No Longer Human at 33.6% Friendliness with no ulterior motive, friendliness stripped of high-pressure salesmanship, for someone who might never come again.
NOISE in No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories at 25.1% He put the rooster's can underneath it and returned to the bedroom, pursued by the metallic noise of the water in the empty can.
PROBLEM in 84, Charing Cross Road at 2.2% In reply to your letter of Ocober 5th, we have managed to clear up two thirds of your problem.
PROOF
PUZZLING
QUIET
SECRET
SIGN
SLEUTH
SOLVE
SUSPECT
VICTIM in Flame the Fire Horse and Other Horse Stories at 80.5% The next day we found him dead in his paddock, a victim of snake bite.
WITNESS

[Neo]

I think I'll be going for the Holmes level, as Sherlock is not doable for me. (I think it would have been funny if that level would have been called Watson though ;) )

clue
crime
DARK Vengeful, p. 3. "Sure, her husband's waist had widened a little, while hers had narrowed, that beautiful swimmer's body bloating a fraction each passing year, but his summer brown hair hadn't thinned, and his eyes were still the rugged blue of slate or dark water."
detective
flashback
footprint
guess
guilty
hidden
hunch
innocent
instincts
investigate
motive
noise
problem
proof
puzzling
quiet
secret
sign
sleuth
solve
suspect
victim
WITNESS Vengeful, p. 12-13. "Fate had handed him the perfect witness, and he'd be damned if he was giving her back without a fight."

[Anne ✨]

Femke wrote: "I think I'll be going for the Holmes level, as Sherlock is not doable for me. (I think it would have been funny if that level would have been called Watson though ;) )

Oh my, I just noticed I put sherlock and holmes - LOL - you know Watson was what I was thinking!!!!!!!! I can't believe I put the same name - duh! I must have been tired :)

WATSON it is!

[Jazzy]

What about Moriarty?

[Tiina]

I took my time to fill in a couple of words I have. I was going for SHERLOCK at first but I'm slowly starting to reconsider. Only six words so far! Six!

[Chloe]

A month in I think it's probably time for me to update! I've been keeping a list separatley, so here's the words I found from 3 books so far (I keep forgetting to look!)

clue - The Girl in 6E, page 112, "I press my ear to the door, straining for some sound, some clue as to what is happening."
crime
dark
detective
flashback
footprint
guess
guilty
hidden
hunch
innocent
instincts
investigate
motive
noise - The Girl in 6E, page 269, "My steps, taken as gingerly as possible, make the noise of an entire marching band."
problem
proof
puzzling
quiet Vampire Academy, page 140, "Would it have really made a difference if I'd been quiet?"
secret - The Wicked Deep, on the cover, "Secrets lurk beneath the surface.."
sign - The Wicked Deep, page 16, "The sign above the glass door reads: Alba's Forgetful Cakes"
sleuth
solve
suspect
victim
witness

[Anne ✨]

Hey there participants of Scavenger Hunts - I need your feedback... I have an idea for 2019 that I wanted to gage interest with - I was thinking we could have a sign-up for guest mods, where you could each choose a month(or two-month) where you would create the list of words on any theme you want, and post your list to this Scavenger Hunt folder for the month you sign-up for...

Is there any interest for this? I'm finding as an audiobook listener that I don't do this type of challenge and so I have no idea how easy/difficult/short/long/duration to make the list of words... in other words, I suck at it and need HELP! LOL

[Tiina]

This is so hard to complete!

I don't know about making a list but I'd sure appreciate it if someone else did, so that I could complete it :D

[Anne ✨]

Mion wrote: "This is so hard to complete!

I don't know about making a list but I'd sure appreciate it if someone else did, so that I could complete it :D"

haha yes too hard! I was trying to be all clever with the words all being of a single theme... only good if all you're reading is mystery books right?

I just looked up some old scavenger hunt challenges in a few other groups to get an idea of what types of words lists they're using so I have a much better idea now!

[Tiina]

Anne ✨ wrote: "Mion wrote: "This is so hard to complete!

I don't know about making a list but I'd sure appreciate it if someone else did, so that I could complete it :D"

haha yes too hard! I was trying to be al..."

I keep forgetting about trying to find words a lot of the time, so in the end, I mostly log ebooks, because it's so easy to check afterwards... but it feels a lot better to have the list as a bookmark and notice the word without any help stand out while reading!