Chalk Lines: Murder Mystery Word Search — book cover
Free bonus pack · Volume 1

Two more cases,
and a fresh tracker

You found this from the back of Chalk Lines. Here is what was promised in there — and it is all free.

  • Two cases that did not fit
  • A reprintable tracker
  • A place on the solvers’ board

Where should the pack go?

Pop your email in and the downloads appear right here on this page — no waiting for an email to arrive.

Rather not join the list? Take the two cases or the tracker anyway. They were promised free in the book and they are.

One open case

The night bus that came back eleven minutes late with one passenger still aboard. 12×12, across and down only, decoder strip printed for you.

One closed case

A compositor missing from his frame, and a page reset by somebody who did not know the house style. 15×15, all eight directions, alphabet built from the killer’s own name.

Machine-checked

Same gates as the book: the killer is not hiding in the grid, every listed word is readable in exactly one place, and the letters you never use spell the crime scene — and nothing else.

Three sheets: a case each, and the solutions on their own page so you can print it separately. Neither bonus case carries a confession letter — working them cannot put a wrong letter in your tracker.

Who has closed the book
Counting the solvers…
    Claim your place

    Claim your place

    Finished all one hundred and twenty? Type the confession — from either volume; we can tell which from the answer itself. Spacing, capitals and punctuation do not matter, only the letters, in order.

    Names are checked by a human before they go up, so yours will not appear straight away. Nothing else about you is stored or published.

    Haven't got the book?

    Chalk Lines is 120 connected cases across four divisions, one puzzle to a page. Every grid hides a killer, a crime scene and a coded weapon — and every case gives up one letter. Solve all 120 and those letters spell a confession. 276 pages.

    Chalk Lines Volume 2 book cover — a fingerprint behind a word search grid, with CONFESS circled

    Division Files · Volume 2 · Out now

    120 all-new cases, and a different man to catch

    Volume 1's culprit was at every scene. Volume 2's was never at one — he is in the paperwork, and the last case in the book is his own. It reads on its own, so it does not matter which you start with. 276 pages.

    A hundred and eighty-odd large-print puzzle and activity books, and a shelf of pet books — have a look at the rest.