THE FAIR-PLAY DETECTIVE: Rookie Cases: 25 Short Mystery Cases You Can Actually Solve — Every Clue on the Page, No Tricks (The Fair-Play Detective — Case Files. This is Volume 1.)

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Ever finished a mystery puzzle and thought — how was I supposed to know THAT?You read carefully. You tracked every suspect. Then the solution produced a clue that was never on the page, or hinged on some obscure fact you’d need an encyclopedia to know. That’s not a mystery. That’s a magic trick with the method hidden. This book makes you a different deal.THE FAIR-PLAY PROMISE — printed in the front, kept in every case: Every clue you need is in the case text. No specialist knowledge required. Exactly one answer fits the evidence. Every solution cites the clues that prove it. And solutions never, ever introduce new information.Inside: 25 short mystery cases — thefts, frauds, forgeries, blackmail, and sabotage in villages, theatres, sleeper trains, and country houses — climbing from Rookie (one clean deduction) through Investigator (where one clue in every case is lying to you on purpose) to Chief Inspector (full timelines to rebuild, and a finale where the impossible crime itself is the red herring).You’ll convict a thief with a sunrise he should never have seen. Break an alibi with an unbroken spiderweb. Catch a forger by the hand he writes with, and an arsonist by the one fact he couldn’t innocently know.A short worked example teaches you the four-step method real deduction runs on — then the files are yours. Every case ends with an avoidable hint and a full solution that shows not just who, but how you should have known. Score yourself at the back and claim your rank.No gore. No guesswork. No tricks. Just lies — and the small, stubborn facts that break them.Open the first file. You have all the clues. Read more