THE QUIZ ANSWERS: PART TWO

6] What is the link between:

a) Max Mallowan and 10 Rillington Place

The name Christie is the link. Sir Max Mallowan was Agatha Christie's second husband, and 10 Rillington Place was the scene of a probable miscarriage of justice involving serial killer John Reginald Christie.

b) Betty Joan Perske's first husband, and a dealer in ship's supplies.

Chandler is the link. A dealer in ship's supplies is a chandler; Betty Joan Perske's screen name was Lauren Bacall, and her husband Humphrey Bogart famously played Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe in the 1946 movie The Big Sleep.

c) A place of worship and a Celtic people.

Think of places of worship; church, synagogue, mosque? Temple!

South African born Aussie author Peter Temple's private detective is called Jack Irish.

7] How are transport to a music festival, biblical daughters, a lengthy conundrum and a path through trees, all linked to a Maltese Jew?

This question had people stumped. It was even suggested that the Maltese Jew was Peter Lorre, who was in fact born in Austria -Hungary [in present day Slovakia].

It was much more straightforward than that.

Transport to a music festival? Glastonbury, no Woodstock. Transport. Last Bus to Woodstock.

A path through trees, or The Way Through the Woods?

A lengthy conundrum? A conundrum perhaps a riddle. Lengthy? The Riddle of the Third Mile.

Biblical daughters? The Daughters of Cain.

They are all titles of Colin Dexter's books.

The connection with a Maltese Jew is Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta from which comes the quote The Wench is Dead, used as the title of another of Dexter's superb Morse books.

[to be continued, two more answers to come, one elementary, and one a creation of a mind with too many useless facts spinning round in it.]