How much you wanna bet that when Croptop gets to the location in the first clue, she finds there are others in search of the buried loot and “offs” them?
I think this arc is inspired by a real fellow who hid a treasure (I forget where, but it’s in America), and wrote a picture books with poetic clues as to where to find it. This was back in the ‘70s, if I’m not mistaken; it has yet to be found.
AND a letter jacket!