1.What does Horace Danby like to collect ?
Ans - Horace Danby like to collect rare,expensive books.
2. Why does he steal every year?
Ans- To buy books.
3. How old was Horace Danby ?
Ans = 50 years old.
4. Why did Horace Danby worry over gis health ?
Ans:- because he suffers from hay fever in summer.
5. Was Horace Danby a honest man ?
Ans:- Horace Danby was a good and respectable person but he was not completely honest as he robbed a safe every year to buy expensive books.
6. What did Horace Danby love?
Ans - rare and expensive books.
Ans:- Horace Danby loved rare and expensive books.
7. Why did Harace rob every year ?
8. How did Horace plan to buy books each year?
9.How dis he study the house at Shotover Grange? How did he get the chance to enter the house at Shotover Grange ?
10. How much worth of jewel are there in the safe of the grange?
11.Where did the housekeeper hang the key ?
12. Why did he put on the pair of gloves when he took the key ?
13. By what name Horace called the small dog?
14. How to make a dog quet according to Horace Danby ?
15. Where was the safe at the house of Shotover Grange ?
16. Why did Horace feel his nose tickle in the room ?
17. What did Horace do when the flowers were hindering him in his work ?
18. What was the profession of Horace Danby ?
19. Where did Horace find all about the details of the house ?
20. With whom did Horace Danby live ?
21. Who is speaking to Horace.Danby ?
22. How was the woman who was speaking to Horace Danby?
23. Horace Danby was a meticulous planner but still he faltered. Where did he go wrong and why ?
Ans:- Each year Horace Danby planned carefully to rob a safe so that he could buy his selected books for the year. Because he loved rare and expensive books. He was a meticulous planner, but he faltered by his foolishness. This year He planned to rob the safe of the house at Shotover Grange. This house was described in an article of a megazine. So Horace knew everything of the house. He had been studying the house for two weeks and entered into the house when the two servants went to watch movie. There he met an woman who was also a thief and came to rob the safe. Horace Danby did not know the real owner of the house.He thought that the woman was the wife of the owner of the house.So the woman could be able to cheat him. she was cleverer than him because she had done her work through him. Horace also believed her and open the safe without gloves. His fingerprint were left everywhere there . But she did not left any fingerprint there. It seems that the woman was more intelligent than him. She informed police that Horace had robbed her jewels. So police arrested him. He told that the woman had told him to do so,but police didn't belive him because his fingerprints described that he was the thief.
