The 28 cases, in the order of the walkthroughs. Each entry says how the case usually reaches you, what its sheet asks and whom you present it to. No entry names an answer; the walkthrough linked from each one does.
The Mill FireReeve Storn's own charge: the grain store at the river-mill burned, and the fire was set, not chanced. He wants the hand behind it — the who, the why, and how it was done — each point shown, not merely named.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Reeve Storn's summons: you arrive in Dreskmark knowing of it
The Burned WarrantReeve Storn's own record-room: a Concord distraint-warrant burned the night before it was to be served, and the square has already settled on the widow it was drawn against.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Halvik Storn (“Ask the reeve what burned in his record-room”)
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- The Warrant Ash in Dreskmark Market Square
The Chalked NameThe square tells of a bond-warehouse porter beaten senseless among the quay crates — and the watch reading a chalk-mark for a letter and seizing Calder Ostry on it.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Brisa Wend (“Ask Brisa what she cannot set down as ordinary”)
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- Grethva Brenvordotter (when you walk up)
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- The Watch Notice in Dreskmark Market Square
The Cornered ManReeve Storn reports a killing at the physic — a man found dead in a lane, a suspect the town already names. The coroner Doran Venn has the wound account. The physic door stands east along the market row.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Doran Venn (“Ask Doran what he will not close”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Double-Bluff FrameThe locksmith Ferrin Olt keeps the market's key-log, and the forced weigh-house coffer has him reading it again.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Ferrin Olt (“Ask Ferrin what was done to the coffer”)
The Drowned ClerkReeve Storn wants the docks looked at: the harbour-clerk Toller Vane was found drowned at his berth three nights past, logged as a fall, though the ledger he was copying has not been found.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Corwin (“Ask Corwin what the quay will not say aloud”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The False FactorReeve Storn is uneasy about a Concord factor who came unannounced and a fortnight early, seal in hand, wanting the books that same hour.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Halvik Storn (“Ask the reeve about the Concord audit-factor”)
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- The Doctored Audit Sheet in Dreskmark Market Square
The False WeightReeve Storn reports a Concord silver chest held at the physic that arrived with right count but wrong metal — base ingots silver-washed in place of the true bars. The assay master Tovic Hald is at the physic door east along the market row.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Tovic Hald (“Ask Tovic what will not prove out”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Forced PenReeve Storn notes a deed lodged at the bonding house — Ilsa Brunt's wharf-lot signed to Vard Skoll for a tenth its worth, her hand shaking; the notary Tobin Sael witnessed it.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Tobin Sael (“Ask Tobin what has kept him from sleeping”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Held TongueReeve Storn reports a Concord surety bond burned overnight in the Tarnished Coin's strongbox-room, the pledge naming who stood good for a loan. The house blames the debtor Dovic Oslin, though he had already paid in full and was three towns distant that night. Maret keeps the inn through the gate; she marks who else holds a key to that room.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, True Mover, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Maret (“Ask Maret which stories are still untidy”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Helpful WitnessHarl Ourn, twenty years keeper of the weigh-house, has lost the Concord seal-stamp out of it — and the reeve wants it found.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Harl Ourn (“Ask Harl what has happened here”)
The Marked CoinThe counting-house clerk Doltha Ree has a rent-purse that will not square: the watch has its answer and her count has another, and the two do not meet.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Doltha Ree (“Ask Doltha what her count will not square”)
The Mother's ConfessionReeve Storn doubts a confession that closed a mill theft too fast — the guild's relief chest forced through a high transom, and the bedridden widow Orsel Tolle named as the thief though she cannot rise unaided. The guild-master Sarn Hewett keeps the mill up the mill-lane and can show the transom and the tool that pried it.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Sarn Hewett (“Ask Sarn about the relief chest”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
One as TwoReeve Halvik Storn asks after the bonding house, where the watch filed two crimes in one night and he doubts the two-hands reading.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
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- Greta Morl (“Ask Greta what she keeps telling them”)
The Pawned RingThe steward's clerk Osta Andren has carried the Hall's books down to the Coin: on the eve of the reception the founder's arm-ring was found to be other than itself.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Derrin Vosk stands in no room of the town, so this sheet is presented from anywhere.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Osta Andren (“Ask Osta what the Hall has sent her down with”)
The Perfect HourReeve Storn's record-chest: a debt-writ gone during the guild-supper hour and a forgery left in its place, so the theft reads as no theft at all.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Halvik Storn (“Ask the reeve about his record-chest”)
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- The Chest Ash Marks in Dreskmark Market Square
The Planted ProofReeve Storn names a strong-chest robbed at the Tarnished Coin, the proof turned up too tidily in a stranger's room — worth hearing Maret out before the watch is certain.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Maret (“Ask Maret which stories are still untidy”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Quiet HandThe same customs clearing-mark keeps turning up where it has no business being — one hand, quietly, across more than one ledger.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Reach, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Doltha Ree (“Show Ree the hush-debts together”)
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- The Recovered Master Tally in Dreskmark Bond-House (once you hold what it needs)
The Rehearsed HourDoll Verrin, who poured for him, does not believe the seamless evening Dorn spent in her alehouse — a perfect alibi is the tale she trusts least.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Doll Verrin (“Ask Doll what she has heard once too often”)
Sarl's Own HandReeve Storn reports a robbery claim at the bonding house — Edmun Sarl says his bond-stock was taken in the night, and named his creditor the thief before the count was done.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Kerrin Dolm (“Ask Kerrin which claim will not value true”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Spoiled SuretyA confession posted at the bond-shed closes the spoiled-surety business rather too neatly — and the damp that ruined the goods did not come from the weather.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- The Posted Confession in Dreskmark River Docks
The Strongroom TheftReeve Storn passes word from the Tarnished Coin: a sealed Concord remittance gone from Maret's strongroom overnight, the lock not forced — and the house already mutters a lodger's name.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Maret (“Ask Maret which stories are still untidy”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
Two HandsReeve Storn doubts a lone-thief verdict on the docks — a sealed Concord remittance-lot lifted from among a dozen identical crates and blamed on the dockhand Dunmar Kessel. Yet the crates were indistinguishable; only an insider knew which held the value. Corwin saw the night's traffic, through the dock gate.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Hand, Head, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Corwin (“Ask Corwin what the quay will not say aloud”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
Two as OneThe dockside bond-house caught fire weeks past and a vagrant is held for the whole of it — yet the strongbox was keyed open, and vagrants carry no keys to Concord bond-houses.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
- From
- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
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- Greta Morl (“Ask Greta what she keeps telling them”)
The Vanished ConsignmentA bargeman in the dusk well-square swears a whole sealed lot was signed onto Hobb's dock and never came off it — goods do not just walk.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Hobb (from day 2, noon)
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- The Dusk Gathering in Dreskmark Market Square (at dusk)
The Withheld DraughtReeve Storn doubts a death written off as natural at the physic — an ailing trader found cold, his nightly heart-draught left untouched in the phial and the physic never called though he worsened. The coroner Doran Venn withholds his hand from 'natural.' The physic door stands east along the market row.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Doran Venn (“Ask Doran what he will not close”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Wrong ConfessionReeve Halvik Storn wants a second eye on the bonding house — a Concord lot taken and the file closed on Carrock's mark, though the man held no key.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Tell, Motive. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Tobin Sael (“Ask Tobin what has kept him from sleeping”)
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- Halvik Storn (one matter at a time, while no other case is open)
The Wrong CupThe apothecary Brisa Wend speaks of the laced restorative cordial that felled the weaver Mira Sevast — and of the order-book that records who bought it and who it was sent to.
The case sheet asks for 3 answers: Culprit, Motive, Method. Present it to Halvik Storn in Dreskmark Market Square; a sheet is only taken face to face.
How it reaches you
It also enters your casebook the moment you hold any of its facts.
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- Brisa Wend (“Ask Brisa what she cannot set down as ordinary”)