Chapter 8 of 10
Marla's pie sits on the cooling rack with the others, lattice crossed neat as a Sunday collar, apples still sighing under the crust. The judges will taste blind at ten, but the tent has a nose of its own, and one by one the old bakers drift past her table and slow down. There it is, faint and unmistakable, the warm edge everyone has chased for forty years: the cinnamon is in the crust, not the filling. Edith's secret, in an apprentice's pie. And here the morning's arithmetic goes sideways. Butter and sugar and a lattice like that: this pie was built last night, hours before the tin was opened. If the recipe was stolen at dawn, it was stolen too late to bake with. Whatever Marla knows, she did not learn it from a theft.
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About this case
A chapter of The Missing Recipe, a mystery told in word searches. Each chapter leaves you one clue; the finale needs them all.
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 colour 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.
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