The Ravelmere Receipt — Victorian Name-Elimination Mystery

A rain-soaked receipt. A Victorian paper trail. One name to recover.

Boston, 1894. A lecture ends in murder, and a torn receipt is recovered from a gutter. What remains leads to a parcel house with thousands of depositors. Its records, witnesses and surviving paperwork offer sixteen ways to narrow the search.

A case to settle into

Bring a pencil to a historical mystery built around patient comparison. Follow the parcel-house records rather than outside trivia: the directories, field definitions and worked examples give you what you need to interpret the clues.

Inside your download

• 3,600 unique suspect names and 16 clues.
• Three 109-page puzzle PDFs: US Letter, A4 and a linked tablet edition. Each contains the same case; choose one format.
• A separate 8-page Solution PDF with optional hints, progress counts and the ending.
• A Victorian-era case, an article directory, a counter map, six pages of worked clue examples, a log index, a progress tracker and notes space.

How you solve it

1. Read the case and the key to the records.
2. Apply the clues and cross out entries that break a rule. Position clues refer to the original rows, even after those rows are crossed out.
3. Check the one remaining name against the separate Solution file when you are ready.

Time and format

Plan for approximately 4–6½ hours of active checking across as many sittings as you like. This range is calculated from the suggested sequence of row checks, not timed player testing. Reading, note-taking and finding neighboring rows add time.

Print the Letter or A4 edition in black and white, or mark the linked tablet PDF in a compatible annotation app. Bookmark your current register page before jumping to an example. PDF links and pen modes depend on your app; marking and checking are manual.

Before you begin

English-language digital PDFs for adult puzzlers. Solve on your own or discuss deductions with someone beside you. The fictional case includes a non-graphic murder. Four files are included; no printed book, tablet or stationery is shipped. For personal, noncommercial use. Do not redistribute or resell the files.

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