Grand Sleuth · 12 September 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 Grand Sleuth case is set in Gallows Creek and puts 5 suspects, 5 rooms, 5 weapons, 18 clues on the board. 12 detectives filed a correct verdict on the day it ran. Detectives who cracked it took a median of 6 minutes.
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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