The key is not on counterfeit island. Go into the mueseum and the person on the left will give you a package. then go to early poptropica and there will be a lady standing on the left.
you need a key
after you got the card with the spider on it you go in the museum a guy will give you a package then you go to early poptropica and go in the pop art museum and the lady will give you the key and then you go back to counterfeit and go to the investigators house and go to your items and it says use under the key and click use and it will unlock,
There is no key to the chest.
Well first you have to get the key from an old woman in the musem in Early Poptropica and the you go to Country Side when you get back to Counterfiet and then you use it on her house and then you find any weired stuff.......TO BE COUNTINUED
you go to early poptropica, and go inside the gray art place. there you talk to the lady in purple and get a key. the key goes to the locked house back in counterfeit island.
If your talking about Counterfeit Island then you get the key and go back to the museum on Counterfeit Island
You take it back to counterfeit Island and use it on the door of the house.
You now have a key that fits a lock on Counterfeit Island, and you haven't found a key to the lock on the Inspector's house, so...
get the key!
If you have been to the Countryside, you could not get into the Inspector's house because you didn't have the key. Now...
first you get a package to meet the creator on Early poptropica at the museum and she gives you the key
Once you get the key from the curator, go back to Counterfeit island and use it at the Inspector's house.