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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 FloorFree until 5 Nov
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.