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Ian Rankin in Fife - A tribute to the crime writer Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 11/2/2013
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The cache is not at the given coordinates. Do not attempt to go there! The cache is somewhere along the B9131, a road made famous in one of Ian Rankin's crime novels. The locations in the book go from Kirkcaldy, Anstruther, St Andrews, Glenrothes, Edinburgh, the Wallace Monument etc... but all roads go back to the B9131!

The road is fast and busy but there is however sufficient parking to safely pull in and park, and a clear view of traffic both ways.


Find out which novel the extracts are from, and fill in the missing text to get coordinates:

N 56 15.ABC W 02 43.DEF

Happy reading!

E: “Meeting at HQ,” the desk sergeant explained. Joe Naysmith, standing to Fox’s right, seemed more interested in the leaflets on the counter. Fox liked that: it spoke of easy confidence, the confidence that these officers would be interviewed, that delaying tactics were _________ new to the Complaints.

D: Three years he’d been driving it, prior to the crash. _________ and a half thousand miles on the clock at the time of its last trip to the garage.

C: The advert was for an ICL personal computer with a price tag of almost four thousand pounds, this at a time when a brand-new Renault 5 – with radio/cassette thrown in could be had for ________.

B: “Gavin Willis?” Fox guessed. “The very same,” Naysmith confirmed. “They got it as far as the cottage, but it took _______ of them to push it up the slope into the garage”

A: Her skin was almost transparent, the veins showing. Fox reckoned she couldn’t weigh more than _________ and a half stone. But her eyes, though tired, were lively enough, the pupils dilated by recent medication.

F: “I’m putting the phone down now.” He could hear Kaye chuckling as he ended the call. Fox started driving again, not really sure where he was headed. Not for the first _____ minutes anyway, after which he realised he was on the Kinghorn road.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

chmmyr: gur 2aq Vafcrpgbe Sbk abiry pnpur: ba evtug unaqfvqr haqre urqtr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)