SUSPEK - The Christmas Casebook

Three Christmas cases. 47,000 first names each. 17 clues each. 3 killers.

The SUSPEK Christmas Casebook gathers three complete Christmas cases in one volume. Three cities, three bodies, three name lists. In every case one name belongs to the killer, and Inspector Hartmann needs you to find it.

The three cases

• London: on the last Saturday before Christmas, the blind goes up on the Advent window at Cradock's department store, and behind the glass lies the store's Head of Christmas. Inside the Nice List: forty-seven thousand first names.
• Aberdeen: an easterly gale shuts the harbour for the night, and the keeper of the Greetings Log lies on the granite below the old watch house. Forty-five Christmases of messages between ships and homes: forty-seven thousand first names.
• Glasgow: in the small hours of Boxing Day, the man who has run the East End's free Christmas dinner for thirty-one years lies on the church hall's kitchen floor. In a press behind the door wait the place cards: forty-seven thousand first names.

SUSPEK is not a crime novel you simply read. It is a case you solve yourself. Three times over.

SUSPEK is puzzle-crime on paper. Reading, puzzling, thinking, no screen, no app. You sit at the table with the book, cross out names, compare lists and follow every trace. At the end of each case, one name remains.

What you are getting into

• Three complete cases, each with 47,000 possible answers and one correct one
• 17 clues per case that bring you step by step closer to the killer
• Deduction, logic and the real feel of a detective
• Hours of puzzling for the long nights of Advent and the quiet days after Christmas

For everyone who has finished Murdle. For everyone who already knows if Alice is a killer. And for everyone who does not want merely to watch while somebody else solves the case.

Difficulty: Advanced. In every case the clues form a cascade of near-solutions. Experienced solvers should plan 10 to 30 hours per case.

A fitting Christmas gift for puzzle-mystery solvers, fans of investigative fiction and anyone planning to spend the holidays with a pencil and a highlighter.

Open the casebook. Find all three killers.