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Case 10 · Medium ☕☕

Mind the Gap

Dithering Halt, Upper Dithering

The 4.40 was late for the first time in forty years. So, permanently, was the station master.

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Our Sleuth (name to come) says: “Everyone stood in a different row and a different column, Mr Wheel included. Work out where each of them was. The killer is the only one who was in Mr Wheel’s room.”

The suspects

  • QMrs Quince
    Makes jam no one dares refuse.
  • RReverend Ruddle
    New curate. Still lost in his own church.
  • PMiss Primrose
    Infant teacher. Gold stars and iron rules.
  • KMr Kipling-Hale
    Parish council chairman. Loves a sub-committee.
  • WMr Wickens
    Ice-cream van man. Plays 'Greensleeves' at dawn.
  • VMr Horace Wheel
    The victim: station master.

6×6 plan · 8 clues · no timer, no pressure.

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