Chapter 6 of 10
Doc Freels watches the game as he watches a lame horse trot: not the leg, the head. Danny's head is fine. It is the ritual between innings, catalogued since June: the shake of the right arm, wrist to elbow to shoulder, done walking away from the bench. The flex of the fingers. The kid has stopped throwing across the diamond in warmups: lobbing, saving something. Freels has called him in twice, once about a bruise, once fishing. Both times the boy arrived cheerful, flexed on command, grip a vise, and left the doc a clean chart and a bad feeling. The sharpening memory is thirty years old: a young man on a loading dock, shaking his arm out between crates, telling the foreman it was nothing. The foreman's name escapes him. The young man's does not: Gus Malone.
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About this case
A chapter of The Seventh Inning, 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.