you have to go back to counterfit island and go to the country side.
You can't find the key. Eventually it will just be given to you in the course of the game.
You don't have to find the Black Widow. She will find you. (Check the colorful painting.)
Since you couldn't find a key to unlock the cottage in the Country Side, this is probably it.
After you chase the thief, you get a package and go to Early Poptropica island. There you get a key that opens the Inspector's cottage. You find the stolen painting and the lights go out.
After you chase the thief on the scooters, you will get the key to the cottage in the Country Side from Early Poptropica island. There you will find the missing painting and enter the lair of the Black Widow.
To find the Black Widow's underground hideout, you must first get the cottage key from the curator on Early Poptropica Island. Then, go to the cottage on the countryside. Then you must unlock the cottage with the cottage key. Go to the painting that doesn't look like anything and click on it. You will find the scream and then the lights will go out. You will get beaten up as soon as the lights go out. When the lights come back on, you will find yourself tied to a chair in the underground hideout.
what you do is after you get the key card on poptropica you go back to the musuem someone will give you a pakcage examine it with the see if its a counterfeit device when you role over it it will say meet me on early poptropica in the pop art muesuem the curator go to eARLY POPTROPICA AND ENTER THE MUESUEM FIND AN OLD LADY TALK TO HER SHA WILL GIVE YOU THE KEY TO THE INSPECTORS HOME
After you identify the painting thief from the security videos, and find him Downtown, you will chase him on the scooters. After this, you get a package at the museum that will take you to Early Poptropica Island, where you will get the key that fits the cottage door.
you have to go to early poptropica in the museum . click on her then choose the last question, listen, then she'll give you the key for the inspectors house on the county side. use the key then go in
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First go to skullduggery island,take your ship to a island called Keys World island and you will find the key of the chest on counterfeit island!;)
Until the painting is stolen, you can't get into the cottage of the "Inspector" (presumably the Chief Inspector, who is actually the Black Widow). You will receive the key after you determine who stole the painting and chase the thief. The Commissioner and the security officer will help you with the video surveillance of the museum.