SPECTATOR TWIN-TOWN TREASURE HUNT

Set by Caroline Moore

The first three winners of the eight-week Spectator Twin-Town Treasure Hunt will receive outstanding prizes.

The first prize has been presented by Framlington. It is 2000 units in Framlington Monthly Income Fund. At the current offer price of 108.5p, these are worth £2,170. The unit price was up 41 per cent last year. This unit trust also offers a monthly income, paid straight into your bank.

The second prize is a weekend break in Madrid for two, flying from Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester by Iberia Air Lines and staying within walking distance of the Retiro Park, at the four-star Hotel Velazquez. The prize includes £100 spending money. For a brochure describing the prize and many other holidays arranged by Mundi Color, the specialists in visits to Spain for discerning travellers, phone 01-834 3492.

The third prize is a case of 1979 Louis Roederer Champagne donated by El Vino Co Ltd.

Students will have an extra chance to win a special prize of a choice of 10 records or cassettes from the Editions EG catalogue. There will also be many other prizes, including wine and books by Spectator writers.

How to take part

In each issue of the Spectator from 7 February to 28 March, Competitors are asked to identify two British place-names, (a) and (b); these may include boroughs of London or old villages now absorbed into it. In the final week, the last clue will enable you to decode the answer from the place-names You have collected. As usual, bonus marks will be given for identifying quotations and briefly explaining allusions; but it will be possible to crack the code and reach the final answer without getting all the references. Good luck!

To win you must send in an answer form from each week of the competition with your final solution. Back numbers are available from the Spectator at £1.35, including postage. The closing date for entries is 18 April. No entries will be opened till then. If several correct and complete answers are received the winner will be decided by lot. The final arbiter is the editor of the Spectator. The competition is not open to employees of the Spectator or their relatives. Important: Please keep the answer form, as you will need to send it in at the end of the competition with the subsequent forms. If you need more space, you may write your answers on plain paper.

Fourth clue

a) The place — where a Cambridge-educated, homosexual spy was stabbed to death after an argument over a bill (that, at any rate, was the official version of his disappearance).

— that was the birthplace of the man who was found drowned in his car at the bottom of a harbour, gripping the steering wheel, with a piece of pink granite the size and shape of a hen's egg in his mouth.

— where the woman whose nose (according to gossip) was sometimes painted vermilion by the maids who put on her make-up lost a purple and gold garter to the French ambassador.

b) The place

— where 'as soon as I was got within the City the Word of the Lord came unto me again, saying; Cry, Wo unto the bloody City of ! So I went up and down the Streets, Crying with a loud voice, WO TO THE BLOODY CITY OF ! And it being Market-Day, I went into the Market-Place, and went to and fro in the several Parts of it, and made stands, Crying as before, WO TO THE BLOODY CITY OF ! And no one laid Hands on me. But as I went thus Crying through the Streets, there seemed to me to be a Channel of Blood running down the Streets and the Market-Place appeared like a Pool of Blood.'

— that gives its name to the house where a compact was made with a lawyer who was brought up by a smuggler called Hunting Cap, and who never went to communion without a white glove upon his right hand, as a token of penance for shooting an Alderman.

— where two little girls at school were visited by their strong-minded aunt, who at the age of 61 married a man more than 20 years her junior. He went mad upon their honeymoon in Venice and jumped from the hotel window into the Grand Canal.

Answer form — 3

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