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The Light at Gull Point
The Light at Gull Point

The Bar

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Chapter 5 of 10

Widow Marsh says it. The men at the stove debate currents; she sets down the coffee pot and says: the bar. The shingle bar to the mainland, drowned under the races all year, dries on the big spring tides: a causeway of clean stones, twenty minutes' walk if you know its dogleg. Old families walked it by night in the wrecking years; nobody brags of knowing it. Pratt takes the almanac and does the sums. The equinox spring, the year's lowest tide, fell in the blind hours. The surge should have drowned the bar, but the wind backed northeast, which blows the water off the flats. Fifty years, she says, that man has walked to my store over those stones. He did not need a boat. He needed a low tide and a filthy night, and God gave him both.

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A chapter of The Light at Gull Point, a mystery told in word searches. Each chapter leaves you one clue; the finale needs them all.

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  1. 1
    Read the scene first.Every chapter opens with a scene from the case. The word list is drawn from it, and so is the clue.
  2. 2
    Find the words.Tap a word's first letter, then tap along to its last, or press and drag. Found words colour themselves in and cross off the list.
  3. 3
    One 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.
  4. 4
    The 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.

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