Three Wishes GiftsThe Blackwater Ledger
Sixty-five years of guests. One killer in the book.
Eleanor Voss kept every guest in one ledger and every complaint in a shoebox under the desk. The book gives you the clues; you find the killer.
Eleanor Voss kept sixty-five years of guests in one ledger, and every complaint they ever made in a shoebox under the desk. The book gives you the clues. This is where we keep the rest.
Both Find the Killer cases are out in paperback.
Sixty-five years of guests. One killer in the book.
Eleanor Voss kept every guest in one ledger and every complaint in a shoebox under the desk. The book gives you the clues; you find the killer.
5,000 suspects. 80 clues. One killer who never left.
Five linked Christmas murders, five case files and fifty-seven years of names. A logic and elimination whodunit for adults: solve each case, then find the one killer connecting them all.
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Fuller histories of the featured guests, a few at a time. Who they were, and why they stopped coming back.
The complaint letters, one by one, with Eleanor's notes in the margin.
Early news, the cover and the opening chapter of the next case, before it goes on sale.
The Blackwater Inn, August 1986
Dear Mrs Voss,
I write, as I have written every August for fifteen years, to put three matters before you.
First, breakfast. Eight o'clock is not early. The pike rise at six, and by eight they have risen, eaten and gone home.
Second, boat number three. It leaks. I have told your boatman. Your boatman has told me it doesn't. One of us is wet to the knee every morning, and it is not your boatman.
Third, the fish. Forty-one pounds, taken on Tuesday off the north shallows: the largest pike ever landed on this lake, as your own scales will tell you. I offered it to the bar, mounted at my own expense. I understand you have declined.
I shall, of course, be back next year.
Yours, as ever,
B. Quayle (Room 138)
In the margin, in Eleanor's hand: “Filed.”
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