Off Duty, On the Case

An old-fashioned seaside hotel, an inspector who swears she is on holiday and seven days in which brooches, bottles, sheet music and umbrellas vanish. In every case, between four and seven suspects make a statement: entirely true or entirely false. The culprit always lies; the innocent sometimes do too.

Inspector Vidal gathers a few of them into groups and notes how many are lying, never who. With that, the little she sees with her own eyes and a pencil, you work out who is lying, who is telling the truth and who did it.

One hundred cases (ninety short cases and ten longer case files), each with a single solution, varied difficulty, a board to help, a clue if you get stuck and every solution reasoned step by step at the end. Illustrated in full colour.