E: 03/09 Win £10,000 and other smaller prizes [effort]

Bewlay

Clue 7:

"There’s a fox at the bar, keeping safe from the dogs. In a place where he legally could lose all his togs. He could read Simon’s Memoirs or stroll down the pier. And remember the days when old Prinny came here. www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk"

Answer is Brighton, definitely Reg 18.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Beach_Memoirs

+ nudist beach + Brighton Pier + King George IV

glm68

Today's answer: Brighton in section 18

Thanks fnc63 and all who post answers, I won a £50 voucher yesterday.:j

Edited: Oops, sorry, didn't see the second page of posts.

Biker*Chick

Bewlay wrote: »

Clue 7:

"There’s a fox at the bar, keeping safe from the dogs. In a place where he legally could lose all his togs. He could read Simon’s Memoirs or stroll down the pier. And remember the days when old Prinny came here. www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk"

Answer is Brighton, definitely Reg 18.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_Beach_Memoirs

+ nudist beach + Brighton Pier + King George IV

glm68 wrote: »

Today's answer: Brighton in section 18

Thanks fnc63 and all who post answers, I won a £50 voucher yesterday.:j

Edited: Oops, sorry, didn't see the second page of posts.

Thanks both :T

Bringing link over too : www.the-kings-ransom.co.uk/

1961templar

Just logged back into the competition and had to re-enter answers 1-5 because they hadn't saved!

Bewlay

Clue 8:

"A murder mystery: imagine you’re a famous Belgian detective’s right-hand man. You discover a body, killed by a horrific eye injury. In the victim’s pocket you find a beer-mat with ‘MLXVI – RDM’ scrawled on it. You decide to head for The Ridge to puzzle out the mystery… www.gkflamegrill.co.uk"

Answer is Hastings, Reg 19.

Poirot's right hand man - Captain Hastings
Shot through the eye - King Harold, Battle of Hastings
MLXVI - RDM = 1066 - Robert De Mortain
The Ridge, Robert De Mortain pub:

http://www.gkflamegrill.co.uk/locations/robert-de-mortain-hastings

sourge

Bringing over the clues and Regions so far:
Link To Game

Clue 1 - Edinbrough - Reg 3
Clue 2 - Abingdon/Oxfordshire - Reg 10
Clue 3 - Lintihgow - Reg 2
Clue 4 - Nottingham - Reg 7
Clue 5 - Cambridgeshire - Reg 11
Clue 6 - Welwyn Garden City - Reg 14
Clue 7 - Brigton - Reg 18
Clue 8 - Hastings - Reg 19

Bewlay

Clue 9:

A burning question for bookworms: its shadow features in Martin Chuzzlewit. It’s the venue for a fight between a raven and a gargoyle in Stoneheart. Its designer investigates a gruesome murder in The Bloodless Boy. And there’s a nearby pub named after it – where?"

The answer is London, don't have time to post the clue answers right now, will add later.

Reg 15.

One-Eye

Clue 9 - I agree with Bewlay's answer: region 15 - COMP LINK: http://www.the-kings-ransom.co.uk/

Literary References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Great_Fire_of_London#In_fiction

THE PUB: http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-london/monument-pub/

Answers so far:
1) Edinburgh - region 3
2) Abingdon - region 10
3) Linlithgow - region 2
4) Nottingham - region 7
5) Huntingdon - region 11
6) Welwyn Garden City - region 14
7) Brighton - region 18
8) Hastings - region 19
9) London - region 15

glm68

Answer 10: COWES region 20

grahamhgraham

King's Ransom Clue 7 = Brighton = Area 18

Simons Memoirs were about Brighton and Prinny was King George's nickname and he recognised John Nashes architectural contribution: the Brighton Pavilion.