Chapter 2 of 10
Leo Fisk, at the boarding house a week, walks the rows daily in city shoes gone sensible, writing in a notebook he closes when anyone nears. He asks Ray about press capacity and barrel suppliers, Ivy about the road in winter. He asked Pearl which trees went in first and wrote her answer down, which unsettled her more than rudeness. 1931 has taught the county what strangers with notebooks mean: appraisers ahead of foreclosures, buyers ahead of auctions. When the deed goes missing, suspicion finds Fisk by supper, nobody organizing it. Ray goes and asks what he is writing. Fisk says his business is honest and his notebook his own until he is ready, and closes the door politely. Which answers nothing, and is exactly what a guilty man would do. And an honest one.
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A chapter of The Cider Press, a mystery told in word searches. Each chapter leaves you one clue; the finale needs them all.
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- 1Read the scene first.Every chapter opens with a scene from the case. The word list is drawn from it, and so is the clue.
- 2Find the words.Tap a word's first letter, then tap along to its last, or press and drag. Found words color themselves in and cross off the list.
- 3One listed word is not in the grid.Find the other nine and the word left over is the chapter's clue. Note it down, or let the case page keep it for you.
- 4The finale needs every clue.The last puzzle's word list is the clues you collected, and once you find them all, the leftover letters spell out who did it, and why.