John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles - extras (see letters page) Fever Room ---------- There are 6 major sections, with 3 rows on top, and 3 rows on bottom. From left to right, top to bottom, number each section: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Look at the very top left section, number 1. We only need to concentrate on the 9 little drawers in this section. Label each drawer from 1-9, left to right, top to bottom. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Drawer number 9, on the very bottom right side, is the drawer that has the key in it! Perhaps Nick's system consisted of "3 drawers across, then a, b, c down, and you find the key!" Of course, the key could have been drawer number 9 in any of the other 5 sections. But who said crazy people had to make sense to you? Bookshelf --------- There seems to be a few green books that stand out in the left part of the bookcase. Look at and read all the books. There are four rows with green books of them. The first two rows have 3 books each, the last two rows have 2 books each. Row 1: Galen Hippocrates Al-Razi Row 2: Vesalius Freud Harvey Row 3: Linnaeus Paracelsus Row 4: Metcalf Avicenna Remember those medallions above the entrance door to the asylum? There are the first 3 great minds. What about the fourth? Well, Malcolm seems pretty stuck on himself. Push in the books for Paracelsus, Freud, Hippocrates, and Metcalf (the order doesn't matter). Iron Maiden ----------- Go to the iron maiden, and push the symbols for a closer look. Hmmm, a picture of an "eye" would probably be pronounced "I." On the far right side on the top row is a picture of a young girl, possibly a maiden. So that's what the riddle meant! "The word you seek is the thing itself." The word you are seeking through the symbols is what will end up sounding like "iron maiden". And the word you seek is on the iron maiden right in front of you! Click the picture of the "eye" = i Click the picture of the figure "running" = run Click on the picture of the maiden = maiden - o -