5. What's In The Box?

Most of what we’ve learned so far about the Oxford Pub Mystery comes from copies of the case summary from the Police records that Morse seems to have swiped. He’s jotted all over them in various places. He also drew up the set of rules of the Pub Crawl game and even seems to have made up a few example games. Not that he’d be able to get anyone to play, not since Max died. I don’t think he knew anybody else other than Strange, me and the missus.
Also in the file we’ve got the initial statement with Kate Buckland and then an interview down the station at a later date. Then there’s transcripts of interviews from the four lads, several bits and pieces that I’m not sure is relevant to this case, and three of the four envelopes handed out by Gideon at the Butchers Arms containing the clues for the four Mystery Pubs for the next week’s crawl that never happened.
I’m going to type all this up on here for you to see. I’m guessing that working out the puzzle for the four pubs might be important – I think Morse hung on to as many copies as he could just to make sure they were identical. I’m a slow typer still so it may take a few days to get it all on here, so bear with me.
First will be Kate’s initial statement.