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- case #6 - the kingfisher theft
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- it was only 10:15 a.m., but it was
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- already 92 degrees on what promised to
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- be a hot and steamy friday, july 12th.
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- sgt. haskill had spent his first hour at
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- the station house cursing the broken air
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- conditioner and fantasizing about
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- floating on woodley lake, when the phone
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- rang, snapping him back to reality.
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- ms. jane hu, cashier at the fragrant
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- jade restaurant (n), was calling to
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- report a theft. the fragrant jade's
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- owner, su li chen, also owned a collec-
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- tion of exquisite carved jade
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- sculptures. last night, mr. chen had
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- held a small family gathering in his
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- home above the restaurant in honor of
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- his nephew, tom chu, who had just been
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- accepted to huxley college. the other
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- guests included his nephews, david lee
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- and hyung lee, and his niece, judy chen.
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- during the party, someone stole the
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- kingfisher, the finest sculpture in
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- mr. chen's collection.
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- while sgt. haskill sat in a semi-
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- stupor from the heat, ms. hu went on to
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- give the following information on each
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- of the people at the party:
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- tom chu had been raised by his uncle,
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- su li. tom's father, ku ming chu, had
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- immigrated to the u.s. from hong kong
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- with tom's mother. both were killed in
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- an automobile accident. tom is very
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- upset because he had been accepted to
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- m.i.t.'s engineering program, but uncle
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- su li is insisting that he go to huxley
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- college. tom is head waiter at the
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- fragrant jade.
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- david lee, also had lived with ku
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- ming chu, his uncle, and moved in with
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- his other uncle, su li, when ku ming chu
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- was killed. su li loaned david money to
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- open computer mall, a computer store in
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- the westron mall (l). however, david is
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- clearing next to nothing from the store,
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- after the loan repayments to his uncle,
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- su li.
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- hyung lee, david's brother, was left
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- in china when ku ming came to new york.
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- hyung is studying at huxley college,
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- because the chinese communists want
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- u.s.-trained professionals, and they
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- prefer that he be near family while
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- studying.
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- judy chen's father, tak san chen, was
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- su li's older brother and should have
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- inherited the family jade collection.
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- however, in 1948, when the communists
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- took over the village where the chen's
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- had their land holding, tak san was in
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- england, studying medicine. su li stole
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- away with the family treasure in order
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- to keep the communist party from taking
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- or destroying it.
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- when the brothers met years later in
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- the u.s., su li refused to give up the
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- jade collection saying he rescued it
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- and thus earned the right to keep it.
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- judy is still bitter about that.
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- *
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- to win, you must:
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- 1. identify the thief.
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- 2. explain the motive behind the theft.
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- 3. locate the missing kingfisher, or
- tell where it can be found.
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- all players start at the fragrant jade
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- restaurant (n) at 10:45 a.m.
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