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Case 8 · Medium ☕☕

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The Startled Badger, Upper Dithering

Mr Hopp never missed the treble twenty. Tonight someone at the pub made sure he missed everything else.

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

The suspects

  • KMr Kipling-Hale
    Parish council chairman. Loves a sub-committee.
  • BMajor Bunbury
    Retired major. Still salutes the postbox.
  • PMiss Primrose
    Infant teacher. Gold stars and iron rules.
  • TMr Thistlethwaite
    Bell-ringer. Can't hear a word you say.
  • SMiss Saffron
    Runs the wool shop. Knits while she spies.
  • VMr Stanley Hopp
    The victim: darts captain.

6×6 plan · 8 clues · no timer, no pressure.

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