She walked free. He didn't. Three years ago they stood trial together. Clue by clue, she turned herself into a survivor and him into a killer β then the evidence cracked. She had forged all of it. She is gone, and all she left behind is a ledger of 40,547 cities. One of them is where she is living right now.
A murder-mystery logic puzzle for adults: seventeen clues, pure elimination, no guessing β and no answer key printed anywhere in the book.
Celia Vane writes crime you solve with a pencil. Sometimes it is a single murder stretched across an entire book of cities; sometimes it is a fresh small case hiding in a grid of letters. The rule never changes: read carefully, strike out the innocent, and whatever remains is guilty.
"Tell no one how you did it. Tell everyone that you did."
The next case is already being prepared. It will not be announced β it will simply appear.
Want to hear when it does? Write to celia@celiavane.com with the subject NEXT CASE and you will be told first.