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Case 3 · Easy ☕

A Stitch in Time

The Post Office and Stores, Upper Dithering

The sub-postmaster had found a love letter that wasn't his to read. Now someone has stamped him 'Return to Sender' for good.

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

The suspects

  • SMiss Saffron
    Runs the wool shop. Knits while she spies.
  • WMr Wickens
    Ice-cream van man. Plays 'Greensleeves' at dawn.
  • GMr Gosling
    Allotment king. Measures his leeks at night.
  • KMr Kipling-Hale
    Parish council chairman. Loves a sub-committee.
  • VMr Ernest Quill
    The victim: sub-postmaster.

5×5 plan · 6 clues · no timer, no pressure.

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