The Finch Files

The Finch Files, Volume 2: The Midnight Crossing

Every theft on the Meridian Night Express was a rehearsal. The real performance begins when the passengers step aboard the SS Calypso Star.

Inspector Odalys Finch has thirty cases to solve, from the dining car to the lifeboat deck, and a telegram she cannot read.

Volume 2 turns the difficulty up. Every case is a five-suspect, five-weapon, five-location logic grid with either/or clues, tangled alibis and no spare squares. Eleven are medium. Nineteen are hard enough that two clues must be read side by side before the next square falls.

After every third case, a cipher page hands you a torn strip of the telegram: Caesar shifts, a mirror alphabet, Morse code, keyword squares and more. The key to each one is hidden in the cases you have just solved. Decode all ten strips to learn who has been following Finch across the water.

Inside: 30 original logic-grid mysteries, 10 cipher pages, a passenger list, plans of the train and liner, spare grids to photocopy, and full solutions with the reasoning shown.

Volume 2 works as a standalone book, but it continues Finch's casebook. Black-and-white pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, with room to write.