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Day One
The invitation
The opening letter puts a clear problem in your hands and leaves the first evidence to compare, without asking you to know anything beforehand.
Letter Mysteries · The free dispatch
Three days. One quiet mystery.
Receive a separate, self-contained short mystery by email, one fuller instalment each day for three days. It is a small case in the same warm, fair-play spirit as Letter Mysteries, made to be read without spoilers for Alderwick.
Dispatch note / 03 pagesNew readers welcome
Put aside 10 to 15 quiet minutes, follow the correspondence, and decide what you think before the final page. The trial story stands on its own and does not use Alderwick characters, clues, or plot.
The rhythm of the trial
A little case, delivered in three acts.
Each message gives the story room to breathe. You can read on a phone, save the emails for later, or keep a pencil beside the page and test your own theory as the details arrive.
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Day Two
The complication
Witnesses, motives, and a short window of time add texture and contradiction. Read the accounts against one another, then keep your own theory open.
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Day Three
The last page
The final dispatch returns to the records, resolves the competing possibilities, and closes the Little Saffron case before inviting you toward a longer one.
After the last instalment
If the format suits you, Alderwick is waiting.
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