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change for any coin or bill!
    Outsmarted by Encyclopedia, Red returned the seven dollars and nineteen cents. And he quit stealing from children rather than go to court.
    Solution to The Case of the Falling Woman
    As the winds of “40 miles an hour” would have blown out the match and candle, “the large window” behind Winthrop’s sister must have been closed.
    Further, the room was lighted by “two table lamps” and the flashgun of the camera, while outside it was night.
    Thus the window should have acted as a mirror. It should have mirrored what was in the room.
    Yet the falling woman could be seen through the window. Impossible!
    Winthrop admitted the picture was faked. He had put it together in his darkroom.
    So first prize—the blue ribbon and bicycle—was given to Scott.
    Solution to The Case of the Red Boat
    Roger Ascot said he and Ben Page had been without drinking water for four days.
    Yet when he came aboard the Coast Guard cutter, he made a mistake—and Encyclopedia caught it right away. Roger Ascot wiped the sweat off his head and face.
    After four days without a drink, Roger Ascot’s body would have been dried out. He couldn’t have sweated one drop!
    Trapped by his lie, Roger Ascot confessed.
    When he and Ben Page saw the Coast Guard cutter, they threw everything overboard—the stolen jewels and furs and their guns. To help their story of being two fishermen caught in a sudden storm, they threw their food and water overboard, too.
    Then they made believe they were weak from hunger and thirst.