The Ptolemy Ashbridge Affair — Master Detective, 4 June 2026

Master Detective · 4 June 2026 · Blackwood Hall

The victim is Ptolemy Ashbridge. A collector of rare objects and rarer secrets. His study is a labyrinth of curiosities, and he can identify the provenance of anything — including motives.

The case file

This Master Detective case is set in Blackwood Hall and puts 4 suspects, 4 rooms, 4 weapons, 10 clues on the board. 1 detective filed a correct verdict on the day it ran.

Deduce cases are logic-grid deduction puzzles: read the clues, eliminate the impossible, and name who did it, where, and with what. This case was verified by a constraint solver as solvable by deduction alone before it was published. The solution is not published here — the only way to know is to work it out.

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