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Mystery Man

The Mystery Man is back! And more devious than ever...

The Mystery Man (who could also be a woman, it's a mystery after all) has kidnapped eight characters from the stories of Agatha Christie. Trouble is, we don't know who he's kidnapped!

In an email to the official Christie Community, the Mystery Man has revealed that beginning Thursday, July 7th 2011, he will allow one character per week the chance to speak.

And this is the place to put your theories and ideas to the Christie community, or just to browse to catch-up on all the latest events should you not want to use Twitter to follow the game. 

Victim 3

Moderator2 05 Jul 11 at 12:49 p.m. GMT

Whatever you do, do not name the character in the forum, it will ruin the game for other players! Though feel free to help others along, just don't make it too easy for them. Anyone guilty of making it too easy will find themselves bumped off! (and banned from entering the competition).

All four messages from Victim 3 have now been released, they were:

"Someone likes my auburn hair’"

"I do like mixing things"

"So sad for Poor Emily"

"Great that Arthur met his old friend Poirot again"

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mikepaoki 27 Aug 11 at 2:51 p.m. GMT

got it

ErkutSoyer 02 Aug 11 at 12:01 p.m. GMT

I found it!

Epsilon14 02 Aug 11 at 6:24 a.m. GMT

Yes found him/her. The biggest help is for me was the third clue. This is becoming interesting.

ace_of_spades 01 Aug 11 at 5:04 p.m. GMT

Auburn hair-- Hastings usually falls in love with women with auburn hair! Could it be his "first love"-- in Christie's first novel?

anichay 28 Jul 11 at 6:51 p.m. GMT

Yet another case of remembering the first and not last name!

stephaniepina 28 Jul 11 at 3:55 a.m. GMT

Ugh, I can't believe it took me so long to get Vicitm 3!  And I just saw the Victim 4 clue on the facebook page and I already solved it, but there's not a discussion yet here on the forum!  Silly that I solved victim 4 before victim 3, but the clue was pretty easy.

InspectorGrant 27 Jul 11 at 1:38 p.m. GMT

Quite easy, really, with all of the above clues.

I will be interested to see what we have to do once we have freed all the victims.  I mean, obviously we will have to catch the diabolical Mystery Man, but the question is - how????

GKCfan 26 Jul 11 at 11:03 p.m. GMT

Fourth and final clue for Victim 3!

Victim 3 - Great that Arthur met his old friend Poirot again. #agathachristiegame http://goo.gl/wdAS0

This should narrow down the possible books a lot.  Combined with clue 3, the options narrow down a lot more.

ivi21 26 Jul 11 at 2:31 p.m. GMT

Just luck with Victim 3, I didn't read this book. But "Emily" helped.

Pat_september 25 Jul 11 at 4:44 p.m. GMT

well, to be honest the first clue, the one about the auburn hair, helped me the most here..

SocksDaventry 25 Jul 11 at 3 a.m. GMT

Agathasmykid

I don't think you said too much, Syanne; thanks to you and Agathasmykid for your first-rate hints. The choice of victim seems topical for British readers — coincidence? or brilliant masterminding by our hosts? Either way, this is great fun!

Nice job socks...I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that...sometimes this game can be such a mysterious affair.

Touché, Amk!

MrS 24 Jul 11 at 7:22 p.m. GMT

starryskies

Found it!  And, having watched the Sound of Music last night, it was doubly helpful that I had the beginning of "Do, Re, Mi" running through my head ;)

OMG that is the BEST clue. I love you and I hate you. It could go in so many directions. I feel kinda stupid not getting after  I figured out the person. I say Oh bravo, bravo to you starryskies

GKCfan 24 Jul 11 at 5:36 p.m. GMT

Victim 3 - So sad for Poor Emily. http://goo.gl/wdAS0

This narrows it down to just a few books...

poirot1999 24 Jul 11 at 4:53 p.m. GMT

Never mind. I figured it out. This happened to be from another book I read. Hopefully the next one isn't too difficult.

poirot1999 24 Jul 11 at 4:13 p.m. GMT

Syanne

Wow, I knew right away from which novel this character is, but had trouble remembering which one it is. All I can say to help you guys is: go right at the beginning. :)

And I hope I didn't tell too much. :)

By this, do you mean that the character is in the beginning of a particular book?

vale2234 23 Jul 11 at 3:42 p.m. GMT

got it... now just missing victim 1! 

AuntJanesGirl 23 Jul 11 at 3:41 p.m. GMT

jendungeon

I am at sea about the conclussion of the game as well, Jenpix. I thought that maybe once we know who all the victims are, we will see something or someone they all have in common and that may lead to the Mystery Man, but this is just an idea.

faerybard 23 Jul 11 at 11:37 a.m. GMT

Starryskies hit it on the head with the "Do re mi" clue!!!

janerob 22 Jul 11 at 5:33 p.m. GMT

What a lot of red heads in Agatha Christie's books- I think i went through all of them, wish i had been a bit more logical:) finally got it.

sergio 22 Jul 11 at 5:17 p.m. GMT

GOT IT