After you chase the thief on the scooters, you can go to Early Poptropica, where the Curator will meet you in the Pop Art museum to give you the key.
(You get a package at the museum with this message.)
I forget but I think the lady in the museum gives the key to you...
The Inspectors house is on the far right of the island. In the countryside. You can't get in until you obtain the key from the creator.
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
You go to the inspector's house - the key unlocks the door.
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...
She is all the way to the right but to get in you have to get the key from the Curator from Early Poptropica, when you arrive on the island you go into the "pop art museum" and talk to the Curator. The Curator will give you a myserious key.
You use the key from the Curator to unlock the Inspector's house in the CountrySide.
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.
The big house on the country side.
Once you get the key from the curator, go back to Counterfeit island and use it at the Inspector's house.
go farther in the island until u get a key (ps the key goes in the door)
There is no key to the chest, and it never opens. It is a distraction.