Chapter 3 of 10
Edmund Tate, who investigates the way he judges, by elimination, sets the note beside the show's wastepaper and starts matching type. The words are seed-catalog print, he announces: this serif from the Marshall list, that italic from the French importer's spring book, a capital W the weight of the Dutch bulb house. Somebody's catalogs have been cut like paper dolls. The torn survivors turn up by teatime, deep in the committee tent's paper sack among the posters and the string: three catalogs with windows scissored out, the missing words readable by their absences. Gideon Plum inspects the mutilated French one with real grief. That was this spring's, he says. Maybe four exist in the county. I mailed them myself, and I can tell you all four names, though one, he adds, looking at nobody, will not want telling.
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 Prize Rose, 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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