Events seem to be ramping up in severity in this chapter ofThe Rise of the Golden Idol. Behind Bars takes place, as you might very well expect, inside a prison, and it’s your task to work out what’s caused the very hectic and stressful situation unfolding before you.

This is quite an involved one, with quite a few characters to identify, roles to work out, and a series of events to investigate. As ever, though, you’re provided with just enough information to work everything out and figure out exactly what’s happened here. For hints, though, you’ve come to the right place.

The prison yard in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

All Word Locations

There are 43 words to find in this chapter, split between the interior and exterior scenes you’re able to explore.

The left cell

Two prison guards in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

The centre cell

The hallway noticeboard

The prison handyman with a word wall in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

Graffiti on the left

Prison guard

The alarm lights in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

The prisoners

Inside the office window

The prison cells in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

Jason, Robert, Jimmy, Arthur, Daniel, Racketeering, Murder, Kidnapping, Homicide

All Name Solutions

As you might expect, the great difficulty here comes with finding out the identities of the prisoners.

Solution

The names are as follows, in the order presented in the panel:

Henry Wakefield

All Cell Solutions

Working out who resides in which cell is key to figuring out this puzzle.

Mystery person

The prison wall in The Rise of the Golden Idol.

Robert Pakenham

All Message Solutions

A coded message, as in so many other chapters, can be found and decoded here.

The code is broken using the cartoon poster in the escapee’s cell.

2

8

1

9

7

3

inside

flower

book

spine

equals

saw

All Events Solutions

The series of events you have to work out here is linked closely to the escaped prisoner and how he managed this feat.

Solutions

Arthur Blythe, who was in prison formurder, got out of his cell through awindow, using asaw bladehe got fromSteven Aria.

He entered the yard via adrainpipe, and breached the fence usingwire cuttershe got fromPercy Sainsbury.

Finally, heclimbed overthe wall by attachingsheets,which he got fromJimmy Beswick, to thebarsfrom hiswindow.