The final chapter
It ends in the pilothouse at Vicksburg. "You can't prove a thing," Creel says. "Cora stopped playing. Kane wanted his money. Warren was up there too." "You signed for the salvage letter at Memphis," Dorsey says. "You gave the cub the wheel for the one calm hour. Nobody saw you from ten past twelve to 12:35. In between, Cora heard the texas door, and no wind turns that latch. That room was tidied and those markers stacked by the tidiest man aboard. The cards were fanned by a left hand. And the Colonel's red deck is in your coat pocket." Creel looks down at his own left hand. "Twenty years," he says quietly. "And he sold her for scrap." Your word list holds all nine clues. Find them in the grid. When the last one is crossed off, read the leftover letters, left to right and top to bottom. They spell out what happened on the Belle's last cruise.
Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
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About this case
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.