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The Killer Is Still At The Terminal

A Murder Mystery Logic Puzzle by Myra Cross
7,832 SUSPECTS  ·  14 CLUES  ·  1 KILLER

Edith Sorrel was murdered at Mereworth Field. She left behind one clue: a name in the Terminal Entry & Flight Log that should not be there — 7,832 names and fourteen conditions that point to exactly one of them.

Can you find the killer before the Windrose departs?

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The Killer Is Still At The Terminal — book cover
The Night It Happened

Josiah Vane found three things

Everything he knew, he wrote down. Everything he wrote down is in the Log.

A lantern, still burning
Exhibit One

A Lantern

Found beside her at the foot of the mooring mast. Still burning when they found it.

The Terminal Entry and Flight Log, open
Exhibit Two

The Log

Every name that passed through Mereworth Field that season. One of them shouldn't be there.

A boarding ticket, Mereworth Field to Windrose
Exhibit Three

A Boarding Paper

The one Edith flagged the night before she died. She never got the chance to explain why.

A Taste Of The Case

Three of the fourteen conditions

Clue One — The Fare

The killer was entered in the Log as a Passenger.

Clue Five — The Hinge

The entries directly above and below the killer in the Log are logged to different Sheds from each other.

Clue Twelve — The One Who Stayed

The killer's page contains exactly one Ground Crew entry.

The remaining eleven conditions — and the register they apply to — are inside the book.

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You Found The Killer

at Mereworth Field
7,832 suspects. 14 clues. 1 killer.
Found before the Windrose departed.
A Passenger of the Windrose
Before You Begin

Tips for solvers

Apply the wide conditions first
The first few conditions eliminate large groups at once. Use these before moving to conditions that require checking individual names closely.
Work through the Log systematically
Go page by page. Don't jump around — it's easy to miss a name if you skip sections.
Keep a record as you go
When a condition eliminates a name, cross it out clearly. When you're down to a handful, re-check each one against every condition from the start.
Some conditions ask you to look at the names around your suspect
When you reach these, look at the entries directly above and below in the Log — not just the name itself.
Don't rush the final conditions
The last few conditions are the most precise. Take your time — the killer is hiding in the details.
Questions

Frequently asked

Does the book include the solution?
No. The solution is not in the book. Use this page to verify your answer once you have one.
Does Y count as a vowel?
No. For any condition involving vowels, only A, E, I, O, and U are vowels. Y is always a consonant.
For conditions about entries "above" or "below" — do I look within the same page or across pages?
The entry directly above means the entry immediately before in the list — even if it's the last entry on the previous page. The Log is one continuous list.
What if more than one name passes every condition?
This shouldn't happen — exactly one name passes all fourteen. Recheck each condition carefully against both names.
No name I've found passes all fourteen. What do I do?
Recheck conditions in order, starting from the first. It's easy to misapply an early one and carry that mistake forward.
Corrections
Known corrections for this book are listed here by edition. If the first page of your copy shows an edition number, that tells you which edition you have. Otherwise, you have a first edition.

First Edition — No corrections reported yet.