Chapter 5 of 10
Dorsey needed to know where Nathan Creel was that night. He climbed to the pilothouse and opened the log book. At a quarter to twelve, the handwriting changed to big, careful schoolboy letters. "That's mine," said the cub pilot, a boy of nineteen. "Mr. Creel's is much tidier. He writes left-handed, and he keeps this pilothouse neat as a pin. He let me steer alone last night. My first time. I never took my eyes off the river." "Where did Mr. Creel go?" "Down to the engine room, he said." Below decks, the chief engineer, Otis Varner, wiped his hands on a rag. "Creel was here," Varner said. "We argued about the steam gauges until about ten past twelve." "And after that?" "He left. I didn't see where he went."
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A chapter of The Marked Deck, a mystery told in word searches. Each chapter leaves you one clue; the finale needs them all.
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How a mystery chapter works
- 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.