Crimefloor: a new case every week
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- #22The Long FiringPro
A wood kiln stoked all night by a rota, every stoke written down. Six on the ridge, each with a quarrel. By dawn the potter lay dead.
- #21Four Nights of the OwlPro
Four nights of Durga Puja, four goddesses robbed of their crowns, a clay owl left in every trunk. North Kolkata thinks it has a madman.
- #20The Glenmore AfternoonPro
In 2001 a climber died at his Highland lodge and his wife got life. She is dying now, with one hearing left. Six people retell the day.
- #19Ash on Knights HillPro
Frank Mercer burned with his teak on Saturday night. By Sunday his heir was in a cell, and Frank was dead again, somewhere else.
- #18The Saudade DiaryPro
A wife walked into the Sintra fog on the eve of her anniversary. By dawn her blind grandmother was broke, and her diary named her husband.
- #17The Porter's StoryPro
One witness saw a dealer killed among his bronzes, and he remembered every detail. That was the trouble.
- #16Quarter to ElevenPro
A driver shot dead in a Surrey barn yard, and in his fist a torn strip of paper written by two hands, one word at a time.
- #15Salt in the SugarPro
Two priests, a sealed parcel, a famous cross and a trail of salt, spilt coffee and broken glass laid across Bombay for the police to follow.
- #14The Grey CapPro
Grasse's last great nose dies in his sleep on the wrong insulin, and his nurse gave the last dose. Someone will let her pay.
- #13The Long Way InPro
Christmas in Hatton Garden: forty-one safe-deposit boxes emptied, five million pounds of gold gone, and the steel door never opened.
- #12A Whisper on the Sea FacePro
A fiancé nobody saw by daylight, love letters typed to the signature, an oath to wait, and forty thousand rupees gone on the wedding day.
- #11The Rose and the RaidPro
Masked men robbed a Monte-Carlo gala live on TV. By the Casino, in a locked strongroom, a pink diamond quietly stopped being one.
- #10The Man at the Void DeckPro
A gambler six weeks out of Changi was pulled from a canal. His ex-wife had every reason, and was in a cinema when he last texted her.
- #9Cocoa at HollybrookPro
Every night at ten Vera Ashton bolted both her doors. On Thursday she died behind them, and her husband all but asked to be arrested.
- #8The Seventh NapoleonPro
Someone is climbing into Kensington houses to smash plaster Napoleons and leave the silver. Inside one is a pearl stolen in July.
- #7Last Night at KilimaPro
Four generations in Kenya. One birthday at a river camp. By dawn Edward Barrett was dead in his tent, and everyone at his fire was lying.
- #6A Goose on Regent StreetPro
A countess's sapphire vanished from a Strand hotel and a plumber went to prison for it. On Christmas morning it turned up in a goose.
- #5The Fernhill LetterPro
A dead widow's letter reached the planter at dinner. He took it into his study to read, and never came out.
- #4The Bolted RoomPro
Emma Hale bolted her bedroom door on Thursday night. On Friday morning, nine days before her wedding, her uncle had to break it down.
- #3The Thirty-First FloorPro
Leo Small asked for a guard on the only way into his tower. By half past nine he lay dead on the 31st floor.
- #2The Gold Cup ColtPro
Three nights before the Wessex Gold Cup, someone led the favourite out into the Dartmoor dark. By dawn his trainer lay dead in the gorse.
- #1A Private ViewFree
Twenty minutes of darkness for the artist's big speech. When the lights came up, the gallery's owner lay at the foot of her own iron stair.
Spatial UI inspired by Jesper Landberg's Griflan Labs (labs.griflan.com).