A proper murder case, delivered as a PDF. Read the file, question the suspects, name your killer — at your own kitchen table.
Written and set in Australia. Fair-play rules: every clue you need is on the page. Play solo with a pot of tea, or print a few copies and argue it out after dinner.
The Vanishing at Blackwattle Station
Cup Day, 1983: a family vanishes from their own luncheon. Twenty years on, a renovation finds what was meant to stay buried.
A 47-page dossier of police reports, newspaper clippings, suspect interviews and letters. Six suspects, three honest red herrings, one answer that holds up when you check it.
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Storm at Wye Inn
July 1988: a storm seals an Art Deco hotel on the shipwreck coast — and the proprietress is dead behind a door bolted from the inside.
A 33-page police file: reports, exhibits, transcripts, a 1926 floor plan, two newspapers a quarter-century apart. Six suspects, a buried 1963 tragedy, and one object under the victim's head that shouldn't be there.
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Vanishing on the Ghan
June 1978: somewhere between Marree and Alice Springs, a man vanishes from a sleeping compartment bolted on the inside.
A 34-page police file: reports, exhibits, interviews and the railway's own paperwork. Six suspects, a 1968 mine collapse, one trunk travelling the wrong way. The hardest case in the series so far.
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Curtain at the Theatre Royal
Opening night at Australia's oldest theatre. The impresario is dead in the No. 1 dressing room by the interval — and a full house heard the murder weapon ring its Act II cue.
The quick one, made for warming up the table before a longer case. It has never been sold on its own and never will be — it comes only with membership.
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All four cases come with membership
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The cases aren't sold one at a time any more. Join, and the four case files, four sealed clue files and four solutions are yours to download straight away — along with everything else members get.
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Your cases arrive as PDFs the moment you join — each with a case file, a sealed clues file, and the solution.
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Lovely on paper, spread across the table. Reads just as well on a tablet or computer screen.
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Work the evidence, make your accusation, then open the solution to see how you went.
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