Professor Beatrice Gertrude Winifred Hotchkiss is a scholar of French history. She has her very own website.
Biography[]
Treasure in the Royal Tower[]
In 2001, Professor Hotchkiss stays at Wickford Castle in Butter Ridge, Wisconsin. After Marie Antoinette's emerald medallion is stolen from her room, she is afraid even to open her door for anyone. She spends all day typing up her "theory". After Nancy helps her by giving information, she lets her look around her room by giving Nancy her extra passkey. Nancy can also find her book on Marie Antoinette, Purple Hearted Queen, in the castle's library. When Nancy finds Marie Antoinette's hidden journal, she gives it to the Professor, who excitedly proclaims that she had been trying to track it down for fifteen years. She has the entire thing translated by the next morning and eventually publishes it.
Legend of the Crystal Skull[]
In 2007, Nancy discovers Professor Hotchkiss' book The Crystal Skulls: Fact or Fable? She calls the professor to ask her questions about the skull. Even though Hotchkiss met her before, she does not remember Nancy at all. She had learned about "The Whisperer" as it had been in France (most likely through Queen Anne) and was then supposed to be brought back to the New World from which it had come in 1684 with Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. However, his crew mutinied, and the skull was left behind in North America.
Secrets Can Kill: Remastered[]
In the library search engine, along with Purple Hearted Queen and The Crystal Skulls: Fact or Fable?, it says she wrote The College Survey of English Literature.
Tomb of the Lost Queen[]
In 2012, Hotchkiss sent Nancy a signed copy of her new book, Lost Queens of Egypt. Apparently her interest in queens diverted to Egypt (she explains that her fascination with Egyptian royalty began at the Sistine Chapel of Egypt). Nancy can call her and they can help each other out with information. At the end of the game, Hotchkiss republishes the book with new information about Nefertari discovered by Nancy. Nancy says in her ending letter to Hannah that she's looking forward to Hotchkiss taking her off speed dial.
Midnight in Salem[]
Professor Hotchkiss is shown to have written "The Salem of Yesterday", a book that can be found with her name in the Salem Museum of History.
Trivia[]
- She can never remember Nancy's name, instead calling her everything from Candy to Fanny to Mandy.
- She has a cat named Mr. Jingles.
- She has a great fondness for food, often thinking about what she would like to eat and getting quite excited about it.
- She graduated from Waverly Academy in New York in 1962.[1]
Books[]
- The Purple-Hearted Queen
- Unconstanting Tryant: The Lost Diary of Marie Antionette
- The Crystal Skulls: Fact or Fable
- The College Survey of English Literature
- The Lost Queens of Egypt
- The Lost Queens of Egypt II: Including the founding of Nefertari's Tomb
- The Salem of Yesterday
Quotes[]
TRT[]
- *through a door* "Well I don't HAVE a menu! ... At least not from this hotel."
- "Your mind is like a ravenous monkey gobbling up every banana in its path!"
- "I'm not usually much of a meat-eater, but...very well. Fifty drumsticks, please. Chicken that is. Cluck. Cluck."
- "Rock and roll, dear."
- "Nancy, I must warn you: I'll wrestle you for this, if I have to, and it won't be pretty!" "I'm sure physical combat won't be necessary, Professor."
- "Shall I peep? Oh la la! I do believe I'll peep!"
- "Welcome to the witching hour. Isn't it marvelous to be up and about when others are sound asleep? I find my brainwaves are at their most powerful during this time."
- "Poor Marie, the most misunderstood queen of the 18th century."
- "Hmm...and it seems I'm out of change. I'll just have to tip you the next time, Mandy."
- "Note to self: High Five Team Hotchkiss!"
- "At the moment, my theory is rising like a magnificent souffle. I need to collect a few more ingredients if you will. But it's a delicate situation: if I leave my room even for a moment, I fear the souffle will come crashing down in a heap!"
- "Testing. Can anyone hear me? Hotchkiss to Earth! Come in Earth! Oh, ok. I think we're rolling!"
- “I’ll have a nice tip for you next time, Fanny!”
- "Ack! Virginia Woolf never endured such interruptions! Who is it?!"
- "It's as if her spirit is in the air. Sweet as the smell of fried chicken."
- "Can't talk now! The energy globules have given me a carbo rush! I'm a little out of my head, but in the desperate need for protein!"
- "That Leslie, yes. A real dynamo. But, I told Chester that I would not require any maid service during my stay."
- "Hello my fellow night owl, or perhaps I should say 'Hoot Hoot'!"
- "Hard to think of food, Candy, when I'm riding the raging rapids of my theory."
- "My blood sugar plummets! Please see to my dinner!"
CRY[]
- "Oh yes, you! You were the delightful young lady dolling out the samples in the tasting room at that cheese factory! Yum yum!" - One would think Hotchkiss would remember the girl who made her famous.
- "I do believe that things that defy any so-called "rational" explanation happen all the time, Nessie. Now does that mean that there are mysterious external forces at work in the universe, of which we do not and cannot have knowledge of? Or does it all boil down to us? If the human heart desperately wants something to be true, does the human mind have the power to make it true?"
TMB[]
- "The problem is that I downloaded this program called Weather Monkey. At my age it's important that I keep abreast of all meteorological developments, but now I'm starting a new book and I can't focus on my work because the Weather Monkey keeps yelling the weather at me." - talking to Nancy, thinking she is Francine, someone who works with computers.
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