Northend
The rebus shows a compass indicating NORTH and again the album The Doors, track 11, The END [REB19].
The name James Crossley is on the door. He was “Hunter” in the TV series Gladiators [NOR1].
The quotation beginning “Hello, the drawing-room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence” (actually this is two different quotations spliced together) is from Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Inspector Hound [NOR2].
To interpret the books, you need to look up the 3-digit Dewey Decimal Code for each subject shown [NOR3]. These can be found on http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/dewey.html and there is a hotspot link to this on the book spine reading “151” (this Dewey Code is listed as “Not assigned or no longer used” so was just put in as itself). Conflating all the numbers together yields:
020114202119160501110914071605151612051209220914071301091412250914030116051618152209140305
(some of the numbers are ambiguous, just to make things harder). If you now take this two digits at a time, it can be read as letters of the alphabet to spell “Bantu-speaking people living mainly in Cape Province”, who are the XHOSA [NOR4].
The
page of “alchemy” is decoded using the table of elements, as was a code in
the 1986 Hunt. In this case, you should ignore Dalton’s symbols round the
outside and interpret the numbers as the atomic number of various elements,
replacing each one by its symbol. Some letters couldn’t be bent into this code
so just appear as themselves. The result is “Nymphadora Tonks uses this to
cure Harry’s broken nose”. This is a reference to an incident in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince where the Auror Tonks uses
the spell EPISKEY, whose name derives from the Greek episkevi
meaning “repair”, to fix Harry’s broken nose [NOR5].
The chap in the hat is George Fox, founder of the Quakers (“my voice quaking…”). He was imprisoned many times, but in 1674 it was in WORCESTER [NOR6].
Passwords and Directions
(a) XHOSA to get to Christmas Common
(b) EPISKEY to get to Turville
(c) WORCESTER to get to Turville Heath
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