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October Murder Mystery: A letter from 1996

The Inspector has been going through the Laaste Hoofstuk archive. It's an extraordinary thing, apparently: every letter, receipt and invoice the house has received in fifty years, filed in date...

October Murder Mystery: It rained

A short one today, because the Inspector's file for this clue is short. Don't let that fool you. The weather station at the Jonkershoek forestry office recorded rain on the...

October Murder Mystery: The doctor's pockets

Dr Jakes Bondesio signed a death certificate for heart failure within ten minutes of seeing the body. To be fair to him, oleander does exactly that to a heart. But...

October Murder Mystery: A receipt from a small ...

Jo says she was in Stellenbosch all afternoon. After Monday, the Inspector wanted proof. She got it. In Jo's handbag was a receipt from a small secondhand bookshop in Stellenbosch...

October Murder Mystery: The unpublished novel

Jo Merz has written five crime novels. None of them has been published. I want to be gentle about this, because some of the best writers in history spent years...

October Murder Mystery: Fourteen books hiding i...

Who's who? Our niece's surname is a month, in German. Her twin was the second of four sisters, a writer who sold her hair, whose youngest sister burned her manuscript,...