While I was doing some research on Victor Sassoon — the 6th richest person in the world back in the 1930s, I came upon a puzzling story in the Bund magazine. It’s 2010 and the Shanghai Peace Hotel, previously known as the Sassoon House, just finished a 3 years overall renovation. The article mentioned workers discovered a box that seems to belong to a secret society — The World Travelers Society.
That information piqued my curiosity, but what intrigued me even more was that nobody followed-up on the mystery. I so much wanted to know what happened to that box and what was in it, or even if that story was true.
There isn’t much information in the article though — a title, a little paragraph and a photograph.
I started by translating the information and put the different elements on a board. Soon after, I sent an email to the article’s writer asking if she had further details or clearer pictures.
It didn’t take long before I got a reply to my email.
Her reply included two architectural plans, a complete floor plan and the other one looks like a copy of the same plan, but just a part that was tore off. Did they hide the box at that location? From what I can see, the detailed drawing on the top (the tore off paper) represents a specific apartment of the overall floor plan.
Miss Li She also left a post-it saying the original note (the signed map) found with the box was actually kept at the Peace Hotel museum. I will call the Peace Hotel and see if I can get hold of the original note or its copy.
In the meantime, could you work on the two plans and help me figure out where I should go next. What’s the name of that building, its address and which flat should I search for?
Remember, we are looking for the box or anything leading to it.
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