Detective Work
Gap-fill exercise
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On the day when I took a summer job at Repsom museum, the Gilbertson necklace was
to the museum to be put on show. Meanwhile I
to work with Anna Wain on some displays about
in ancient Repsom. Two weeks
, the alarm went
at 11 o'clock and when I and Anna
downstairs to see what
, we
that the necklace
.
The thief
the security camera in that room with a newspaper while he or she
it. When the police came, they
all those who
there and they
me, since the necklace
only two weeks after I
working there, and before, nothing
ever
. Apart
that, only two years
, I
with some friends who
stealing packets of cigarettes. Then I
the necklace hidden in the
chest of the pirate display. I
to hand it over to the police, but then I
that the police
think that I
it and
to have
it.
During the next few days, I
various people. I
Anna Wain because she
to the coffee machine at the time of the theft and she did not
the police about that. I also suspected Cora Turner because her brother was a gambler who needed money. Another suspect was Ian Maxton because the week before, he
an
and damaged his motor bike and the car which
involved in the accident. He was not insured, so he
a lot of money.
Since the police
me, Mr Balfour
me to find another
. I was very angry that I
to have to leave the museum, so I
to prove my
by catching the thief myself. I set a trap to
him or her. I
everyone at the museum that the next day I
to move everything from the platform of the pirate display in order to
the platform.
That evening I
to the museum, put
the uniform of a wax policeman and
there like a wax dummy waiting for the thief to
. At midnight, Derek Halliday
carrying a torch. When he
up the necklace, I
on the light and Derek
that someone
him to
the necklace.
Then Mrs Gilbertson
with a gun to
Derek and take the necklace. She
to make it seem
if her necklace
in order to get one hundred thousand pounds as insurance money and then more money by secretly
the necklace because she
become poor. She
to kill Derek because he
keep asking her for more money to keep
. She
him in the shoulder but he was not
. I
off the light and in the dark, she
into the prison cell of the prison display. I
her in. She and Derek
and sent to prison. I
a very good detective. I
proved myself
and kept my summer job at the museum.
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