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Post title: Flaw in The Secret of Chimneys
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iamsy on 06 Jul 2010 at 6:24 p.m. GMT
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The fake 'Virginia Revel' letters were written by the original thief to conceal in cipher the location of the jewel. From the ending it seems that the jewel is STILL in the location described in the letters.
Why then, did the thief have to SEARCH (on at least 3 occasions in the wrong place!) for the jewel? Having concealed the jewel themself and recorded the location in faked letters, why couldn't the thief simply retrieve the jewel from its hiding place?