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S. McBride up North~Tribute to the crime writer Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/21/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The coordinates take you to the middle of the Tarlair pool, scene of crime in one of Stuart McBride’s novels. The cache is NOT there! but not far though.
The locations in the novel will take you through Banff and its now famous Police station, McDuff on the North Coast, and Aberdeen of course where most of Logan McRae’s investigations are based.


Stuart McBride was born Feb 27 1969 in Dumbarton, and raised in Aberdeen and is a prolific crime writer. Find out which novel the extracts are from, and fill in the missing text to get coordinates:

N 57 40.ABC W 002 28.DEF

A: There, forcing her way through a copse of rowan and ash, making for the hedge on the other side. ______ more gardens and she’d be out on the road

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B: A dark shape was hunched at the far side of the pool, a line of black-and-yellow tape trailing from _______ hand: ‘CRIME SCENE – DO NOT ENTER’.

C: ‘I checked with the control room – turns out the guy who said the Ram-Raiders were still there was blootered. Not bad going for half _____________ on a Saturday morning.’

D: Logan shielded his eyes. ‘The ugly one in the blue Fiesta?’ The Fiesta rumbled past, followed by ___________ other vehicles. Then a tiny gap …

E: McInnes’s smile grew. ‘Not Perth, Australia, mind you, but Perth, Scotland. One hundred and thirty miles away, not _____________ thousand.’

F: Inside, it looked as if a bomb had gone off. Ground ___________ was the gap where the two windows had been, spreading impulse-buy items, tins, and lottery tickets out in a fan of destruction.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

obggbz bs rkcbfrq ebpx

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)