Across the Curriculum with Detective Fiction for Young People and Adults

Appendix A

Guide Questions

Chapter 1

1. Where is the protagonist when the story opens?
2. Name an incident that you think is funny.
3. Who is the Basquo?
4. Why does Cady want her father to bring his gun to Philadelphia?
5. Why is Henry Standing Bear going to Philadelphia?
6. Who else is going with them?
7. Name the car they use to get there.
8. How did you react to the Omar-Myra Rhoades contretemps?
9. Who is Lucian?

Chapter 2

1. Where in Philly do they first stop?
2. What happens to Walt while he is waiting for Henry?
3. Where is Old City is Cady's apartment?
4. As Lena and Walt return after their walk, what news do they get and who gives them this news?

Chapter 3

1. What bad thing happens to Walt in the waiting room?
2. What has happened to Cady? Where did it happen?
3. What does Michael Moretti look for and find in Cady's PDA?
4. What prognosis does Dr. Rissman give for Cady?
5. How does Walt react to the memory of his photos back on his desk back in Wyoming?
6. What does Walt discover on Cady's cell phone
7. Describe the messages
8. Bear says, "Do not do this thing. . .. Do not do this." What thing?
9. Why do Walt and Henry go to a Phillies game?
10. What caused the damage to Cady's skull?

Chapter 4

24. How do they get tickets to the game?

1. How does Walt identify Devon Conliffe?
2. What does Walt do with Devon?
3. Why does Devon react the way he does to Walt's assault?
4. According to Walt, what does just about everyone do ". . .to you when you're a cop."?
5. What news does the man in the black trench coat and the glasses with designer frames with red dots bring to Walt?

Chapter 5

1. Why do Katz and Gowder question Walt?
2. KEEP THIS QUESTION IN MIND AS YOU READ THE MYSTERY. Cowder ". . . looked at Katz longer than necessary."(p 82 middle of the page) Why?
3. Why does Walt get upset as he searches Cady's apartment?
4. What does Lena admit happened eight years ago?
5. What startling information does Esteban Cordero give about the man who pounded on the museum's door and told him about Cady's fall?

Chapter 6

1. What does Walt conclude about the person who knocked on the museum door?
2. What does Henry say people must do for Cady? Why?
3. What does Walt find among the flowers and what does it say?
4. What does Walt conclude from the message?
5. Where do Walt and Henry go?
6. What find makes Walt cry?

Chapter 7

1. Who walks in on them?
2. What pro bono case was Cady working on?
3. Who do you think is the father of Joanne Fitzpatrick's baby?
4. What do Walt and the other policemen do in West Philly?

Chapter 8

1. Describe Devon's physical condition when he died.
2. Why do Walt, Katz, and Cowder go to the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware?
3. Describe the Roosevelt Boulevard incident.
4. What reason does Joanne Fitzpatrick give for being at the gun range? (REMEMBER THIS INCIDENT!)
5. Why did Walt want to grab Osgood's throat?

Chapter 9

1. Where do Walt and Lena go for dinner?
2. Why can't Lena go with Walt to Henry's museum opening?
3. Do you think she's happy about that? Why or why not?
4. What does Walt use for eagle feathers which Henry wants him to get?
5. Describe the incident involving Shankar DuVall, Billy Carlisle, and Devon Conliffe.
6. What does the note say which Walt finds on the Benjamin Franklin Bridge?
7. Whom does he meet on the bridge?

Chapter 10

1. What does Henry say about the ceremony he has just performed?
2. Who wrote the poem in the brochure for Henry's Mennonite photograph exhibit?
3. Who contacted Vic and asked her to come to Philly?
4. What does the driver of the SUV say he is looking for?
5. Where is Walt when he regains consciousness?
6. How does Walt find the Indian mentioned in the latest message?

Chapter 11

1. Describe what the police find in the Bodine St. warehouse.
2. What startling thing do they discover about Billy Carlisle?
3. Why does Walt get angry with Katz and Cowder?
4. How does Walt describe the connections among Carlisle, DuVall,Diaz, and Osgood.
5. Who do they is leaving the notes?

Chapter 12

1. Who is the killer Walt decides to look for?
2. Who does Walt think hurt Cady?
3. What news does Walt receive when he gets to the intensive care unit?
4. What do they find on page 72 of the ledger?
5. Who wanted Walt looked after?
6. Where does Osgood want to meet Walt?
7. Why?
8. Describe who was under the awning of the back door.
9. What happened in the alley?

Chapter 13

1. Who is Walt chasing?
2. What does he say when Walt catches up to him?
3. What happens to Walt and Shankar DuVall?
4. Where is the next message found and what does it say?
5. Why does Walt think William White Eyes is following him around?
6. Why does Walt stop at City Hall?
7. Who gives Walt what message?

Chapter 14

1. What is Walt's theory about the notes?
2. What startling thing does Henry Standing Bear do in the ICU?
3. What is the result? (SLEEPING BEAUTY)
4. Who is driving the Cadillac Escalade, according to Walt?
5. Why should Henry be upset?
6. What happens to Vic?

Chapter 15

1. Where did William White Eyes have a job?
2. Who does Walt suspect of working there too?
3. What does the next note say?
4. Describe Creampuff.
5. What does find on the office of the Chamounix Stables?
6. What question does Walt ask Joanne Fitzpatrick and what is the answer?
7. What has William White Eyes borrowed?
8. Why is Forbidden Drive called that?
9. What are Walt and Henry both thinking?

Chapter 16

• 99. Who is "Big Chief'?

Epilogue

1. What happens to Toy Diaz?
2. What happens to Jo Fitzpatrick?
3. What was the "tripping point" of the whole operation?
4. What might be "turning into a situation".
5. What is Walt doing at the end of this mystery?