Augie Pruitt is a private eye with no money and no head for lists. You're his partner. Every Gamebook Noir book hands you a registry of names and a stack of findings. Cross them off until one name is left standing.
A body, a crowd and Augie in over his head. The story runs between the findings, wisecracks included.
Each finding tells you who it can't be. Take a pencil to the registry. Thousands of names go down a few hundred at a time.
Checkpoints tell you your count is right. When one name is left, the solution's in the back: who, why and how.
Oskar keeps Augie's tab in a cigar box marked HOPE, because that's what Augie pays with. Last night it walked out of the Night Owl. Dee found it in the alley bin this morning, empty, with a cherry-pie crumb in the hinge. Tap or click a name to strike it. Tap again to put it back.
| No. | Name | M/F | Line of work | Seat | Came in |
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Same pencil, same partner, a much bigger crowd. Every book is a printed 8.5 × 11 paperback with roomy 12-point striped rows, checkpoints, Dee's three-step hints, and the full solution in the back. No website or email needed to check your answer.
Drop any one and you can't get down to one name. No filler, no "count the letters" tricks.
After every act you check your count, so a slip in Act II doesn't cost you the whole night.
At every checkpoint, Dee gives you three steps: a nudge, a stronger nudge, then the count after each finding, so you can see exactly where you slipped. Take only what you need.
Killer, motive and method, laid out in the back. No code to email, no site to visit.
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