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  • What did Mary explain her Mum about the men?
    She said that they looked like robbers. They looked everywhere before they took the painting out of the boat
  • What was Ellen's job?
    She was an interior designer
  • What did the Lawsons hear in the news?
    They heard about the robbery of a painting in the Rijksmuseum
  • What did the children tell their mother at breakfast?
    They told her everything about the empty house and the men carrying something
  • What did Ellen and the children do after going to the house? Was Ellen angry with them?
    They walked back to the hotel. No, she wasn't 
  • Who did Ellen phone before going to the police station?
    She phoned Peter's secretary to tell her she was going to be late
  • What did the Inspector ask the twins about the boat?
    She asked if the boat was big or small , What colour it was,The name of the boat
  • What did Inspector Kompier ask the children?
    She asked them everything about the night before: What the men looked like, What they were wearing,What language they spoke,
  • What did Ellen say when the Inspector asked her if she was on holidays in Amstersam?
    She said she was working for a Dutch businessman . He had bought a house and she was helping him to decorate it
  • What was Mary sure about when she was talking to her Mum?
    She was sure It was a painting
  • Did the children know where the house was?
    They didn't know the address but they said they could find it
  • What other questions did the Inspector ask them apart from the men?
    She asked them about the house and the painting
  • What did Kompier do when the Lawsons wento to the police office?
    She went into the house with some officers
  • What did Kompier tell the man to do?
    She told him to open the door
  • What did Ellen decide to do after the children told her about the painting?
    She decided to tell the police
  • Where did the Inspector send the officers when they were in the house?
    She sent them to other houses to ask questions
  • How did Mary feel and what did she decide to do?
    She felt unhappy and she wanted to get into the house again
  • Describe Inspector Kompier
    She was a young woman wearing dark blue trousers and a white blouse
  • Did they find anything in the house?
    No, they didn't
  • What was inspector Kompier going to do if the man refused to open the door?
    She was going to ask for the right papers to go in
  • Where was the police station?
    It was on Beursstraat.
  • Why do people ask interior designers to help them with the decoration?
    Because they are not good at doing it or they don't have time
  • Did the police go to the house? what did they do there?
    Yes, they did. They went to the house . They rang the bell but there was no answer
  • Did Mary want to say something?
    Yes, but she knew that the Inspector didn't believe them
  • What did Kompier ask the police officers to do when they arrived to the house?
    She asked them to ask the old man everything about the house
  • Who was the person who had the house key ? why did he have the key?
    He was an old man and he said he had the keys of the house because he was a friend of the woman who lived there