SUSPEK - Murder in York

47,000 first names. 17 clues. 1 killer.

On the Illuminating-York Saturday in early November, the retired Senior Archivist of the Borthwick Industrial Records, Miss Edith Rowntree-Pearce, 69, is found dead at 42 Bishophill Senior, the cast-iron roasting iron still on the sideboard above her. Inspector Hartmann takes the case and slides the Borthwick Industrial Records cross-reference across the desk. Inside: thousands of first names from a century-and-a-half of York chocolate-firm minute-books, wages ledgers and apprenticeship registers. One of them belongs to the killer.

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

Read the clues, cross out the innocent and find the killer before the trail goes cold.

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, one name remains.

What you are getting into

• A logic puzzle with 47,000 possible answers and one correct one
• 17 clues that bring you step by step closer to the killer
• A closed crime case to solve yourself
• Deduction, logic and the real feel of a detective
• Puzzle pleasure as a series

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.

An interactive crime puzzle in which the reader becomes the detective. Perfect for travel, holidays and quiet evenings.

Case #05 of the SUSPEK series. Also works as a standalone.

Difficulty: Advanced. The clues form a cascade of near-solutions. Experienced solvers should plan 10 to 30 hours; for lovers of layered logic puzzles.

Every volume is a standalone case. New city. New victim. New name list. New perpetrator, hidden among thousands of ordinary identities.

Help Inspector Hartmann in his other cases as well. A fitting gift for puzzle-mystery solvers, fans of investigative fiction and anyone planning to spend the next weekend with a pencil and a highlighter.

Open the book. Find the killer.