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5. Lord Peter Pommy is a distinguished criminologist, schooled in the latest techniques of forensic preferences. Lord Peter is investigating the disappearance of Sir Cerdic Pichbot- tom who abandon his aging mother on a street corner in Liverpool and has not yet been seen since. Lord Peter has learned tat Sir Cerdic left England and is living under an assumed name some where in the Empire. There are three suspects, McAfee of Brass Monkey, Ontario, Canada, Manning of North Shag, New Zeland, and Stevenson of Gooey Shoes, Falkland Islands. Lord Peter has obtained Sir Cerdic's diary, which recorded his consump tion habits in minute detail. By careful observation, he has also discovered the consumption behavior of McAfee, Manning and Stevenson. All three of these gentlemen, like Sir Cerdic, spend their entire income on beer and sausage. Their dossier reveal the following: .Sir Cerdic Pinchbottom In the year before his departure, Sir Cerdic consumed 10 kilograms of sausage and 20 liters of beer per week. At that time, beer cost 1 English pound per liter and sausage cost 1 English pound per kilogram

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