$4.39A printable detective puzzle book. A lighthouse keeper vanishes in a storm, and every puzzle you solve reveals one fact that leads to his killer.
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The keeper of the Saltmarsh Light has gone missing in a storm, and Detective Sergeant Imogen Fairlie has 25 files on her desk. Each file is a different kind of puzzle: Morse code from a fisherman, a mirror-written note on blotting paper, a tide-table number lock, letter sudoku, word searches with a hidden message, a chart route across the bay, logic grids, alibi tables, a grid code and a keyword cipher. Every solved file reveals one fact. The puzzles get harder from 1 to 5, two hints per file and complete answers wait at the back, and when all 25 facts are in your notebook you fill in the Close the case form and name the killer.
This is a puzzle book with one story running through it. Instead of 25 unrelated puzzles, every page is a file from a single investigation in the fishing village of Saltmarsh, where the lighthouse keeper disappeared on a stormy night. You solve the file and its answer gives you one fact: when the lamp went dark, how someone reached the lighthouse, which alibi does not hold up.
The puzzle type changes from page to page, 16 types in all. You will decode Morse code, read a mirror note, unscramble anagrams, open number locks, fill letter sudoku, follow a route on a chart of the bay, spot the differences between two photos, work through logic grids and alibi tables, crack a grid code and finish with a keyword cipher. Nothing needs the internet or scissors, and no puzzle depends on colour.
At the end, a one-page form asks eight questions and tells you which files hold each answer. Fill it in from your facts, write the name of the killer, then turn to the verdict to see if you were right.
Most players need three to five hours, spread over a few sittings. The first files take a few minutes each; the last five can take twenty minutes or more.
Yes. The Printer-Friendly Edition has white pages, thin lines and greyscale photos. No puzzle depends on colour in either edition.
Yes. The Colour Edition has a clickable contents page and wide margins. Open it in any PDF app that lets you write with a stylus or a finger.
Ages 12 and up. It is a cosy mystery: no gore and no violence on the page. Younger solvers may want help with the last few files.
No. Every page explains its puzzle, and the Morse alphabet and the code grid are printed where you need them.
Every file has two hints at the back. The first gives a nudge and the second nearly gives it away. Full answers and the solved verdict follow.
It is made for one solver, or two people sharing one copy. Each purchase is for one household.
Both are in each zip. Print at 100 percent with no scaling and the pages fit your paper.
$12.99A printable advent calendar with a murder on board. Solve one puzzle a day, cross names off a 480-name register and be left with exactly one suspect on Christmas Eve.
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$5.29A gala guest list 3,000 names long, 18 clues and one killer. Cross out every guest the clues rule out until a single name is left. Colour and printer-friendly PDFs.
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$5.99A compact whodunit you solve on paper in about 45 minutes: break a time lock code, decode the keeper's notebook and find out who shut him in the vault.
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