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Case 2: The Vanishing Get-Well Card

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Your best card had a $20 gift card inside. Now there is just an envelope, slightly damp, and a feeling of betrayal.

TipOpen one step at a time. The answer always asks twice, so nothing gets spoiled by accident.

1NudgeOpen

Start with clue 3. Who is the tallest suspect? The heights are on the Usual Suspects page.

2CloserOpen

Mrs. Park (5′10″) holds the dripping umbrella, so she stood in the mud: the garden (clue 2). Now clue 4: who wears gardening gloves?

3AnswerAsks twice

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Biscuit (bedroom, feather toy). The tallest suspect is Mrs. Park, so she has the dripping umbrella (3), and whoever held it was standing in the mud: the garden (2). Aunt Lina wears gardening gloves and won’t touch fluffy things (4), so she has the scissors and Biscuit the feather toy. Lina is left-handed and wasn’t in the dark (5): hallway. Biscuit was in the bedroom. Fluffy (1) means Biscuit.

Every answer is also printed at the back of the book, with its page number.

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