Website Mystery Challenge – Post #2 | Virginia Smith

Today I continue to reveal the clues to solve my website mystery challenge. Did you miss the previous post? Take a look in the right column, under the Label “Website Mystery Challenge.” You can find all the posts listed there.

Here’s post #2:

Suspect Number One: Sandra Wolverton is the thirty-year-old spinster daughter of Maryanne’s late husband. Poor Sandra has always felt in the shadow of her vivacious stepmother. Though she’d like nothing more than to escape the self-centered widow’s clutches, she’s stuck living at the family estate for the foreseeable future. The bulk of her wealth is tied up in a trust that won’t be dissolved until one important event – Maryanne’s death. She makes no secret of the fact that she detested Maryanne’s extravagant expenditure of her father’s money.

She has immediately taken over her father’s business ventures, and has claimed his home office as her domain. “Of course I’m appalled that someone would kill her,” she assures Detective Collins as she sits calmly behind her late father’s desk with her hands folded in her lap. Though Sandra has no friends and as far as anyone can tell has never had a date, a scan of Sandra’s computer uncovers multiple searches for a cruise around the world – for two.

Cryptogram Clue (4 words): 38- 2- 28- 8- 36- 2_____ 18- 38 _____ 18- 28_____ 24- 30- 44- 10

Cryptogram Key: S = 38, I = 18