It is about Gordon korman using the item as the next future item in the case of the continuing investigation. The protagonist says the character of the secretary is the only territory of the England in the northwest. Therefore the protagonist is saying that Gordon is using the future time telling as the next best item. Good luck :)
The neighbor has to be the antagonist, because the protagonist loved his dog very much and his neighbor killed his dog, the protagonist even called his neighbor evil, so I would go with C, the neighbor.
I don’t honestly do not know the answer
B. The punctuation belongs outside of the parenthetical citation.