Rookie · 27 August 2026 · Gallows Creek
The victim is Marshal Abel Strand. Pinned the star on himself the week the last marshal was buried, and nobody has come to argue. Keeps a day-book nobody else is permitted to read.
This Rookie case is set in Gallows Creek and puts 4 suspects, 4 rooms, 4 weapons, 7 clues on the board. No 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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