No.01Tutorial
The Missing Heirloom
A sapphire necklace vanishes from a locked study.
Ashford Manor · Bath · 1924
Every Detail Tells a Story
Step through the gates of 1920s and ’30s Britain and beyond. Search rain-soaked manors room by room, question every suspect, and name the killer — in two hundred handcrafted murder mysteries.
iPhone & iPad · The first ten cases are free
- 200Handcrafted cases
- 20Casebooks
- 1924–39Golden-age settings
- 0Ads, ever
The Game
A detective story you solve, not watch.
Every case is a sealed puzzle box. The answer is always in the evidence — no guessing, no pixel-hunting, no luck. Just you, a notebook, and a house full of people with something to hide.
The Briefing
Inspector Hale lays out the crime: the victim, the scene, the hour it happened.
The Search
Examine every drawer and desk. Combine items, read letters, crack combination locks.
The Questions
Interview the suspects. Confront them with evidence and watch their stories crack.
The Board
Pin clues to suspects on the cork board and put the night’s events in order.
The Accusation
Name the culprit, the motive and the method. Get it right first time for three stars.
Explore
Every room a crime scene.
Hand-built 2.5D rooms you can pan and pinch like a dollhouse. Tap the writing desk, the wardrobe, the cold teacup. Locked doors open as the case does, and secret passages hide behind the bookshelves.
- Examine, collect and combine objects
- Ciphers, safes and combination locks
- Hints that nudge before they reveal
The Map
The whole house, in miniature.
Pull back to see the building you’re investigating, room by room. Unexplored doors wait in fog, locked ones wear a padlock, and one tap takes you anywhere you’ve already been.
Deduce
String, pins and a sharp mind.
Your notebook keeps every clue, statement and suspect. Pin evidence to the board and draw the threads between them; arrange the timeline until the night makes sense. When an alibi doesn’t hold, you’ll see exactly where it breaks.
- Evidence, suspects, interviews and journal
- A cork board of connections
- A timeline to reconstruct the night
The Casebooks
Two hundred mysteries. Not one alike.
Poisonings at dinner parties, thefts from locked studies, a juror who never left the jury room. From Bath to Budapest, Brighton to Luxor, Davos to the Nile, the cases grow darker and cleverer as you go.
No.06Easy
The Silent Dinner
A toast, a sip, and a collector falls silent forever.
Vane House · London · 1926
No.18Easy
The Vicarage Tea Party
Six cakes for the judge. Five for the parish. One for the pig.
St. Aidan’s Vicarage · Yorkshire Dales · 1928
No.26Medium
The Clockmaker’s Secret
Forty clocks keep perfect time. One of them is lying.
Thorne & Son · York · 1931
No.51Hard
The Vanishing Guest
A chained door, an open window, and a man who simply isn’t there.
The Grand Meridian Hotel · Brighton · 1933
No.77Expert
The Twelfth Juror
Eleven men and women wanted to go home. The twelfth wanted justice — and drank his tea.
The Old Bailey · London · 1937
No.101Master
The Simplon Sleeper
A diplomat dies in a locked compartment deep inside the Simplon tunnel. Seven passengers swear they were asleep.
Simplon-Orient Express · Lausanne to Milan · 1930
No.151Grandmaster
The Dahabeah
An Egyptologist dies aboard a Nile houseboat. His last translation names a forger.
The Hathor · Luxor · 1935
No.200Grandmaster
The Nightjar’s Gambit
A lecture weekend on the perfect crime. Someone in the audience is about to commit one.
A country house · Wiltshire · 1939
- ITutorial & Easy · Free
- II–IIIEasy
- IV–VMedium
- VI–VIIHard
- VIII–XExpert
- XI–XVMaster
- XVI–XXGrandmaster
…halfway down the trail, The Blackwood Conspiracy. At the very end of it, The Nightjar’s Gambit. Wiltshire, 1939.
Sound & Atmosphere
Turn the lights down. Turn the sound up.
Every case briefing is fully voiced. Rain on the windows, the tick of the hall clock, distant thunder and an original score set the scene — and every drawer, lock and door has its own sound.
- Inspector HaleYour mentor at the Yard
- Sergeant BriggsLegwork and local gossip
- Dr. OkaforPolice surgeon
Fair Play
Pay for mysteries, never for answers.
Casebook I is free — ten full cases to learn the trade. After that, buy only the casebooks you want. No ads interrupt the atmosphere, and nothing you buy can earn a better rank: hints always lower your case score.
Single Casebook
Ten new cases
$2.99 each
Casebooks II to XX, bought one at a time. Yours to keep.
The Archive
Every casebook
$24.99 once
All 190 paid cases in Casebooks II–XX, now and forever, for less than half the price of buying them singly.
Detective’s Club
The full membership
$3.99 / month or $24.99 / year
Every casebook while you’re a member, unlimited hint reveals, a Cold Case of the Month and early access to new casebooks.
- No ads, ever
- Free nudges on every case
- Optional Insight tokens for hint reveals
- Every case solvable without spending
- Plays offline
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The gates open soon.
Shadow & Clue is coming to iPhone and iPad. Bring a sharp eye — and trust no one with an alibi that’s too neat.
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