Unreasonable reason--locomotive in train puzzle, Attic
(LOCOMOTIVE is LOCO ("Unreasonable") + MOTIVE ("reason"))

Paper used in unusual theses--bloody sheets on Martine Burden's bed
(SHEETS ("Paper") is an anagram ("unusual") of "theses")

Adroit holding a sharp instrument--cleaver sticking out of basement door, Kitchen
(CLEAVER ("sharp instrument") is CLEVER ("Adroit") "holding" the letter "a")

A desserted arthropod--trilobite cake on platter in Dining Room (the yellowish thing)
("desserted" arthropod means both "an arthropod made into a dessert" and "an arthropod deserted
(in this case, by natural selection))

663 264625 46 2 6455466--stone lion in upstairs hall, near top of stairs
(A telephone code for "One animal in a million". LION is found in "milLION")

Drink left at sea--glass of wine on nightstand in Knoxs' bedroom
(PORT means both "Drink" and "left at sea")

Snake, baby, trap--baby's rattle in Nursery
(RATTLER means both "snake" and "baby trap" (compare a pacifier with a sink trap, I suppose))

A letter from Greece is quite a number in Rome--XI on the grandfather clock in the Foyer
(XI is both a Greek letter and a Roman numeral)

This eight letter word has kst in the middle, in the beginning, and at the end--inkstand on desk in
Library
(INKSTAND is IN ("at the beginning") + KST ("in the middle") + AND ("at the end"))


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