sam spade mystery of the silver scarab

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not every one has the guts or smarts to take on tough crime cases on their own but, thanks to crime fiction you can be the tough and smart private eye you have always wanted to be. In this quiz you are a famous detective taken from one of the most prolific detective novelists ever to write a detective novel.

are you tough enough to tackle the most dangerous situations and still have your head on to see things through no matter what the circumstances? take this quiz and find out today!

Created by: doctorw2
  1. you are the famous private detective Sam Spade who created this character from the novel The Maltese Falcon?
  2. you are walking across the street when suddenly a man dressed in fine clothes and a fez suddenly grabs you by the arm and says: "Help me please!" you:
  3. the man says he is being persued by three men and that they want to kill him so you:
  4. the man is taken to your office and he introduces himself as Ibrihim Abbas from Egypt he says the men that want to kill him want a silver scarab so you:
  5. Ibrahim tells you the scarab has a jade jewel inside it worth 2 million dollars and that only he knows where it is being kept so you:
  6. Ibrahim tells you that the men who want the scarab must not get it since they are smugglers who want to use the scarab to finance their illegal activities. Ibrahim wants to hire you to find out who is behind the smugglers so you:
  7. Ibrahim syas the names of the three smugglers are Waldon Crane,Gregson tanner, and Randolph snow all of which work for seperate criminal organizations. you decide to:
  8. The next day you are going to public records to look up the names Ibrahim gave to you when suddenly someone grabs you by the cuff of your coat so you:
  9. it is a young woman who has grabbed you and she asks if an Egyptian gentlemen has talked with you so you:
  10. she introduces herself as Mary Snow and that she is in search of an egyptian who killed her son so you:
  11. mary snow tells you that an egyptian named ibrahim threatened to kill her husband over an artifact he found in egypt but, instead killed her son when he could not kill her husband so you:
  12. you decide to check out your client Ibrahim more closely so you go to the immigration records, passport, and visa office and find no trace of Ibrahim entering the country so you:
  13. you decide to spy on ibrahim at a hotel he stays at when suddenly someone jabs a gun into your back so you:
  14. the person with the gun asks: "You helping the egyptian?" and you answer:
  15. you distract the gunmen and hit him square on the jaw sending him sprawling a cuff link falls off the gunman the intials are WC. you know that the person is:
  16. The gunmen lies on the floor rubbing his head as you point the gun at him and you ask him what his beef is with the egyptian. he tells you that he is Waldon Crane with interpol so you:
  17. Waldon Crane tells you that the egyptian stole an artifact from an expedition exibit in cairo and killed a young boy who was the son of an archelogist Randolph snow so you:
  18. you ask waldon crane about a man named gregson tanner and waldon crane does not know who this person is so you decide to:
  19. you knock on the door of the room where ibrahim is staying when suddenly there are two loud gunshots. you break down the door and find Ibrahim lying on the floor dead. the window is open so you:
  20. you catch the person who shot ibrahim and it is a very young man holding a walking cane. you try to take the cane away from him but, he violently refuses to let go of it yelling that he needs it. you know he is lying becuase.
  21. you bring in the young man who says his name is greg tanner to be arrested for murder. when you notice a look of recognition on mary snow and randolph snows faces and you suddenly decide to have them arrested too why?
  22. you explain to the police that greg tanner was an alias for randolph snows son thomas and that they had planned to use the egyptian as a fall guy while they stole the silver scarab for themselves. having their son killed was just an alibi for them. you grab the walking cane and break open the top and:
  23. waldon crane looks at you in astonishment and says "You're a real smart and tough cookie want to work for interpol? you say:

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