A detective in Class 8
And his father cannot say so.
Leroy Brown lives in Idaville, where his father is Chief of Police. When a case defeats the Chief, his son solves it over dinner.
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The Case of the Fifth Word · Class 8 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 105 leveled MCQs 51 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Why the Chief says nothing
Nobody would believe him.
The Chief would like to tell people about his son. Nobody would believe that the best detective alive is an eighth grader.
Why Leroy says nothing
He would rather not seem different.
Leroy keeps quiet for his own reason. He does not want to seem different from other boys, and only the nickname escapes him.
Read the obvious way
Four correct answers, no meaning.
Mrs Brown explains all four words correctly. Nom is from nominative, Utes are a tribe, Sweden is a country, hurts is hurts.
Why her reading fails
Four puzzles, not one system.
Her reading fails because she treats four words as four puzzles. A code is one system, and the system has to be found first.
The paper is the clue
A calendar sheet carries days.
Encyclopedia notices the paper. A sheet from a desk calendar carries days of the week, and that is the key to the code.
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1
The Case: A Robbery, a Will and Four Words
Chief Brown brings an unsolved robbery to the dinner table. A man who was questioned five years ago has died, leaving a will and a calendar sheet with four strange words on it.
- Leroy Brown lives in Idaville, and his father is the Chief of Police.
- Everyone except his parents and teachers calls him Encyclopedia.
- He is an eighth grader who reads more than anybody in town and forgets nothing.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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The Solution: Breaking the Code, and the Boy Who Broke It
Four words from a calendar sheet turn out to be days of the week with three letters removed. The unwritten fifth word names the hiding place, and one question proves it.
- Mrs Brown reads the four words as ordinary words and gets nowhere.
- The sheet they are written on is a page from a desk calendar, which is the key.
- Each word is a day of the week with the letters d, a and y removed.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Words at Work: case, Phrasal Verbs, Homophones and Wordplay
One word with four meanings, and six phrasal verbs from the story. Five pairs that sound alike but are spelt differently. And three kinds of puzzle built out of letters.
- Case can mean a situation, a matter for a court, a container, or a style of writing.
- The title uses the court sense, and the story is a detective case.
- A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word, with a meaning of its own.
~34 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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105 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
The story opens in an American town where the Chief of Police takes his hardest cases home to the dinner table. Where is this story set?
Beginner
A in Idaville, in the USA
B in a South Carolina village
C in a city called Diamond Mart
D in a town with no police at all
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in Idaville, in the USA
Leroy’s father is the Chief of Police there.
Only his parents and his teachers use the boy’s real name; to everybody else in town he is something else. Leroy Brown is known to almost everybody as ______.
Beginner
A the Chief
B Encyclopedia
C Davenport
D the boy wonder
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Encyclopedia
Only his parents and teachers use his real name.
The boy reads more than anyone else in town and never forgets a fact once he has read it. Why did he get that nickname?
Beginner
A He owned a whole set of encyclopedias
B He wrote articles for one of them
C His head was full of facts from A to Z
D He was named after a library
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His head was full of facts from A to Z
He read more than anybody in town and never forgot a fact.
Assertion: The police searched Nolan’s house and found no jewellery. Reason: A clerk from the Diamond Mart identified Nolan in court.
Advanced
A Both true, and the reason explains the assertion
B Both true, but the reason does not explain it
C The assertion is true and the reason is false
D The assertion is false and the reason is true
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The assertion is true and the reason is false
The assertion is true: officers searched the house under a court order and found nothing at all. The reason is false, because the clerk only thought she recognised him when a mask slipped, and then refused to testify.
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