Lily Let the Killer In: 10,013 Suspects. The Killer Isn't a Stranger. A Murder Mystery Puzzle Book for Adults

She opened the door for a guest nobody else saw. Now she is the only suspect. England, 1995. Hours after the ball for its hundredth year, the owner of Greyfriars Hotel is found dead.For three seasons Lily kept the guest register at the front desk by hand. Every arrival, every room, every night. Nobody crossed that threshold without passing her.On the last night of the last season, some time after ten, someone came to the desk with no booking and no card, and Lily knew the face. She had written that name into the register herself, in her own hand. So she let them in.In the morning they found Helen dead.There is no proof that anyone came. There is Lily, who says she opened the door and cannot say to whom. A woman who lets in someone she cannot name is not a witness. She is an explanation.Before the police could seize the register, she ran with it. Not a copy. The book itself, all three seasons, every guest she ever admitted. Then she sent it to a guest whose face she remembered.That guest is you.The line is in there. Not from that night, nothing was written down that night. It is one of the stays she took herself, under the name they gave her. One line in this book is the reason she opened the door.She cannot find it herself. Any answer she produced would be the answer she needed it to be. WHAT IS IN THE BOOK 10,013 stays. The complete Greyfriars register, 1993 to 1995, printed in full across 197 pages. Guest, room, nights.20 clues. Every one of them true of the guest she let in.One line. Cross out every stay that fails a clue. When one line is left, that is the one, and the name on it is what the police need. HOW IT PLAYS Work the clues in any order you like. No clue depends on having already used another one. No trivia and no outside knowledge. Everything you need is printed in this book. Nothing to guess. One line survives all twenty clues, and only one. It is a stay, not a person. Guests came back to Greyfriars, and some names are in the register more than once. Naming them does not finish the job. Bring a pencil. That is the entire equipment list. Ten thousand and thirteen lines. One of them is the reason Helen Ashby is dead. Find it, and Lily can go home.