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Case 11 · Hard ☕☕☕

Up the Garden Path

Dithering Hall, Upper Dithering

Sir Montague was about to sell the village green to a car park company. He never signed the papers.

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

The suspects

  • FLady Fothergill
    Owns half the village and mentions it.
  • TMr Thistlethwaite
    Bell-ringer. Can't hear a word you say.
  • KMr Kipling-Hale
    Parish council chairman. Loves a sub-committee.
  • RReverend Ruddle
    New curate. Still lost in his own church.
  • SMiss Saffron
    Runs the wool shop. Knits while she spies.
  • BMajor Bunbury
    Retired major. Still salutes the postbox.
  • VSir Montague Quarrie
    The victim: lord of the manor.

7×7 plan · 11 clues · no timer, no pressure.

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