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A Stranger Writes

In October a woman left her husband and moved to another town without leaving an address. Nobody has it, not her family, not her bank. On 8 December she finds a letter in her box addressed to her six-year-old son, by name, at that address. She calls the police. She is wrong to be frightened. Why?

The solution

Uncover this answer in Post Mortem. In the app, the narrator answers your questions as you piece together the story.

Available on Google Play and the App Store.

Where do you start?

Read the scene again and separate the facts from your assumptions. With a narrator who knows the answer, ask one question at a time. They answer yes, no or irrelevant.