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Case file 002 · Premium · 1994 · Kestrel Harbor, Maine

Low Tide at Kestrel Point

The co-op bookkeeper found the missing $61,000. The tide found her.

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The case

Sunday, 12 June 1994, before dawn. Nora Fenwick, 52, bookkeeper of the Kestrel Harbor Lobster Co-operative and volunteer keeper of the lighthouse museum, walks her dog out to the point as she has every morning for twenty years. At 07:20 a kayaker finds her face down in a tide pool beneath the light. The dog is tied to the museum rail.

The Sheriff calls it a fall on wet rock. The medical examiner finds bruising on the throat and no seawater in the lungs. The green folder Nora carried everywhere for three weeks, the audit she was to present to the co-op board on Monday morning, is not in her bag and is never found.

Six people were awake in Kestrel Harbor before six: the husband at sea, the co-op president who signed every cheque, the developer who wants the wharf, the neighbour in a boundary dispute, the harbormaster who knew what the audit said, and the nephew who owed her money. The Sheriff got the records. The District Attorney called it circumstantial. Thirty years later the State Police send you the file.

What is in the file

What you must do

Read all 24 documents and name the person who killed Nora Fenwick. One accusation. Right or wrong, the solution file opens and shows every document that convicts. There are no hints and nothing is marked.

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Press play and choose Create a room. Up to eight of you read the file on your own phones, see what the others have opened, vote in secret and let the host reveal. Only the host needs to own the case; guests play free.

Fiction notice. Kestrel Harbor, Maine as described here, and every person in this file, are invented. Any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental.

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