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Man Hunt Richard MacAndrew
Before reading
1. What is a man hunt?
2. Describe the image you see on the front cover.
What do you think it means?
3. Read the back cover blurb. What kind of story
is it?
4. Who is speaking in the blurb, and how does he
describe himself ?
5. Look at the list of characters on page 5. How
could you divide them into three groups?
6. Look at the map on page 6. What does it show?
What is a beck? What is a dale?
7. If you have the CDs, listen to Chapter 1.
Check your reading
Chapter 1
1. Different sections of the text in each chapter are
printed in different ways. Why did the author do
that?
2. Why did the murderer choose the particular
place to kill the walker?
3. How did the murderer feel after he had killed the
walker? Why?
4. Why did he kill this man?
5. Why do you think the killer put the playing
card in the dead mans wallet? What does the
policeman say about it later?
6. What do you find out about the dead man?
Chapter 2
1. The killer did these things in the second killing,
True or False.
a) he drove his car to the place of the killing
b) he walked on the paths
c) he stopped to enjoy the beautiful views
d) he used a knife
e) he talked to his victim before killing her
f ) he didnt leave a playing card on her body
g) he didnt enjoy this murder as much
2. Which new character is introduced in the second
part of the chapter? What is her job?
3. What is a serial killer?
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4. What made the police and Russell think that
these murders were done by a serial killer?
5. What information did Russell say was likely to
be true about the killer?
6. What happened at the restaurant of the Half
Moon Hotel?
7. How did Jonathan Greene anger DI Neville?
8. What do you think DS Scott wanted to say to
Greene at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 3
1. Match the beginnings and endings.
a) The killer sent the text message
b) The killer doesnt tell us
c) The killer wants some people to know
d) The killer says that some people
e) The killer says that he wants to
1) that he is successful at what he does.
2) strangle his third victim.
3) to the journalist.
4) prevented him from achieving his ambitions.
5) how he knows the journalists phone number.
2. Why did the police keep Greenes phone?
3. Which of these things did Neville, Scott and
Russell discuss?
a) The fact that both victims were at Avon
University, Bristol.
b) The fact that both of the victims were
walkers.
c) Whether the female victims husband might
be the killer.
d) Why they havent found the killers car or
clothes.
e) Jonathan Greenes journalism.
4. What happened at the end of the chapter?
Chapter 4
1. Complete this summary of what the killer tells us.
He met his third victim when he was walking
down the (1) . They knew each other.
The man invited the killer to have a (2)
in his house. The victim had been a (3) .
The killer strangled him. He also broke the
victims (4) . The killer wasnt sure what
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to do because he hadnt (5) this murder
like the others. He decided to (6) the
body to the countryside. He thought that the
police wouldnt (7) the mans house if
the body wasnt found there, and so he would be
safe. He also decided to (8) a car to take
the body away in.
2. Put the following events in the order in which
they happen:
a) Scott talks to Jonathan Greene in the pub.
b) Russell tells Neville and Scott she thinks it is
the act of killing which is important for the
murderer.
c) The police visit the scene of the crime.
d) Greene says that he is investigating
something to do with soldiers.
e) Russell, Neville and Scott have a meeting.
Chapter 5
1. Answer these questions about the killer with
short answers.
a) Does he live on his own?
b) Why was stealing a car easy for him?
c) Why did he need a blanket?
d) Why wouldnt there be many walkers out?
e) Why was it good that there was grass at the
roadside?
f ) Where did he leave the three of spades?
g) What did he do with his clothes and boots?
h) What will his next murder be like?
i ) When will the murder be?
2. Who said these things and to whom?
a) The first car behind the tractor is the one to
watch. I think our man is driving it.
b) Hes looking at the effects of active service
on soldiers who have been out in the Middle
East and the Gulf.
c) That means he must have used his own
car to come out here for the first two
murders.
d) Youve got the list of soldiers. Go over to
Catterick. Talk to them.
e) first check the CCTV to see if youve got
him coming back into Richmond yesterday.
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f) Yes, well, Id like forensics to examine it as
soon as possible. We think it may have been
used by the killer.
g) Another one, sir, . . . In fact, this time there
are two.
Chapter 6
1. The killer says: Why they didnt want me, I just
dont understand. Who do you think they are,
and why didnt they want him?
2. How did the killer get the people in the car to
open the window?
3. What did he look for after the shooting? Was he
successful?
4. Why did he say the police would never find the
gun?
5. What did Russell find out about 10 cars from the
CCTV film?
6. How did she find the names and addresses of the
cars owners?
7. Why did the bullet casing give important
information?
8. Two of the soldiers from Greenes list that Scott
investigated live in Richmond. What did Russell
do with that information?
9. Why did Russell say Got you at the end of the
chapter?
Chapter 7
1. Put what the killer does in the correct order:
a) He decides to make the next killing a
drowning and do it the next day.
b) He hides the gun in a box in a suitcase in the
garage.
c) He leaves the stolen car in the Gallowfields
Business Park.
d) He goes back home.
e) He decides to put a sticker on the map
already to mark the next days murder.
f) He goes for a walk because he doesnt want
to talk to people at home.
2. What do these things refer to?
a) red Ford Focus KV06EUU
b) seven thirty in the morning
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c) a part-time gardener
d) a Tariq nine-millimetre
e) four years
f) unnaturally tidy
g) Barney Beck
3. Why didnt Terry get into the army?
Chapter 8
1. Why did Terry Reid choose Barney Beck as his
next murder place?
2. What does he tell us about his relationship with
his parents?
3. What does he tell us about his brother, Alan?
4. How are the murders connected to the refusal by
the army?
5. Are these things True or False?
a) Russell went with Scott and Neville to
Barney Beck.
b) Neville made Russell stay in the car.
c) When Scott looked over the wall Terry was
drowning a woman.
d) Terry Reid pointed a gun at Scott.
e) Reid hit the woman on the head with a stone.
6. What did Reid pretend to have when he told
Russell to get in the car?
7. What did Russell do to Reid?
8. What two other serial killers cases had Russell
worked on?
9. What do you understand by Russells final
words?
After reading
Choose some of these activities.
1. Choose one of the characters and write a few
paragraphs about them describing what sort of
person they are.
2. Write either: a) DS Scotts police report of the
case or b) Jonathan Greenes newspaper article
about the case.
3. If you were making a film of this story, which
famous actors would you choose to star in the
main roles?
4. Think of another title for Man Hunt and explain
why it would be good.
5. Write an email to the author, Richard
MacAndrew, saying what you liked and didnt
like about the story.
6. Make a quiz about the story for the other
students, e.g. some True/False questions or some
correct/incorrect sentences.
7. Write a monologue, like the ones which start each
chapter, by Terry Reid, expressing his thoughts as
he sits in jail in Richmond after being caught.
8. Why did Terry Reid fail in his goal of killing lots
of people in different ways? Write around 150
words to explain your ideas.
9. Draw a picture or a plan of the scene where
Scott confronts Reid with the woman at Barney
Beck. Show the positions of the people, including
Neville and the other police officers.

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