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The Night Desk · Season 2

The Long Nights

Thirty nights of snow in Port Merrow, from November 25 to December 24, Christmas Eve. A new case opens each night at midnight, your time, and every case stays open once its night has come.

Winter comes to the harbor: the Christmas windows go up on Tidewater Street, the pudding club counts its dimes and a clockwork bird stops singing in a toy shop. From the third case, Linus Crale of the Saltholm Clarion is in town, printing the desk's cases before it has closed them. Look closely at the solved cases and a small gray owl keeps turning up, pressed into wax, and the Sunday files keep going back to one night in December 1904. The last three nights of the season follow the owl home.

Sundays are cold cases: an old file reopened, five witnesses instead of four, and one of them lying. New to the board? Start with how to solve a Night Desk case.

  1. Case 31 · Wednesday, November 25 · Alibi web · Case file The Christmas Windows Season 2 begins. The first snow, four lit windows behind drawn curtains, and a silver star that never reached the tree.
  2. Case 32 · Thursday, November 26 · Timeline · Case file The Thanksgiving Supper Thanksgiving at the Seamen's Mission, four turns at the door, and a collection tin that rattled at a quarter to six and not after.
  3. Case 33 · Friday, November 27 · Forged document · Case file The Visitor's Pass A visitor's pass that Grane never signed, ten minutes with Ambrose Kell, and a reporter from Saltholm who wanted those ten minutes himself.
  4. Case 34 · Saturday, November 28 · Alibi web · Case file The Skater's Locket Opening night on Hollow Mere, one lantern-lit lap, four stops, and a locket that came back as an empty ribbon.
  5. Case 35 · Sunday, November 29 · Sunday cold case · Case file The Ice House Wages Twelve winters ago the ice company's wages disappeared on the coldest night of the year. This week the ice house came down.
  6. Case 36 · Monday, November 30 · Locked room · Case file The Bank Night Safe A night safe in the bank wall, a locked vault room behind it, and a pouch of Christmas takings that never saw morning.
  7. Case 37 · Tuesday, December 1 · Misdirection · Case file The Pudding Club Forty families, a dime a week since September, a stone crock behind the counter, and a reporter who knows the answer before you do.
  8. Case 38 · Wednesday, December 2 · Forged document · Case file The Lifeboat Draw A Christmas draw for the lifeboat, a winning number called from the platform, and two tickets that both say 471.
  9. Case 39 · Thursday, December 3 · Timeline · Case file The Toll Ticket A trunk call to Saltholm at 6:40, a paper ticket on a spike, and four operators who each took the trunk board for an hour.
  10. Case 40 · Friday, December 4 · Locked room · Case file The Singing Bird A gilt cage, a clockwork bird that sings when wound, and a glass cabinet that was locked before and after it went.
  11. Case 41 · Saturday, December 5 · Alibi web · Case file The Tree Lights Eighty colored bulbs, a crowd counting down from ten, and a cable cut clean through under the snow.
  12. Case 42 · Sunday, December 6 · Sunday cold case · Case file The Halcyon on the Bar Twenty-two years ago tonight the brig Halcyon struck Harrow Bar in the snow. Her silver went down with her. Or so everyone said.
  13. Case 43 · Monday, December 7 · Misdirection · Case file The Glass Slipper A first night of Cinderella, a slipper of real cut glass, and a reviewer who solved it before the curtain came down.
  14. Case 44 · Tuesday, December 8 · Locked room · Case file The Registered Letter A registered envelope, an unbroken wax seal, a locked cage, and five hundred dollars turned into newspaper.
  15. Case 45 · Wednesday, December 9 · Forged document · Case file The Cottage Receipt A will that leaves a cottage to the lifeboat, a receipt that says it was sold, and twenty minutes of recess between them.
  16. Case 46 · Thursday, December 10 · Timeline · Case file The Lightship Lamp A lightship on the bar, four men standing watch alone in turn, and twenty minutes when the light was not there.
  17. Case 47 · Friday, December 11 · Alibi web · Case file The Hotel Parrot A Christmas ball, a forty-year-old parrot in the lobby, and twenty minutes of grand march when nobody was watching him.
  18. Case 48 · Saturday, December 12 · Alibi web · Case file The Cracked Note A carol contest against Saltholm, a solo in O Holy Night, and a top note that came out like a gull.
  19. Case 49 · Sunday, December 13 · Sunday cold case · Case file The Diver's Report Seventeen years ago a diver went down to the Halcyon and came back with a report. Nobody ever heard it read.
  20. Case 50 · Monday, December 14 · Misdirection · Case file The Salted Mince Pies Seven years a champion, a rival with a salt cellar in her handbag, and a judge who bit into a mouthful of the sea.
  21. Case 51 · Tuesday, December 15 · Locked room · Case file The Signal Box Tablet A single track to Saltholm, one brass tablet to run it, and a signal box locked while the signalman had his tea.
  22. Case 52 · Wednesday, December 16 · Forged document · Case file The Cartage Book A ledger of ice deliveries, one night hire to Fogbell Point in December 1904, and a name somebody wanted gone.
  23. Case 53 · Thursday, December 17 · Timeline · Case file The Goose Club Goose Four stalls in a row along the quay, a crated goose at the end of them, and a honk in the dark.
  24. Case 54 · Friday, December 18 · Misdirection · Case file The Owl Cards Twelve cruel little verses, twelve gray wax owls, and a town that has read enough of Crale to know who to blame.
  25. Case 55 · Saturday, December 19 · Alibi web · Case file The Glass Negative Fifty winters of Port Merrow on glass, one plate from the morning after the wreck, and half an hour when it went.
  26. Case 56 · Sunday, December 20 · Sunday cold case · Case file The Captain's Last Letter Seven years ago a dying man wrote one letter and asked for it to be posted. It never left his house.
  27. Case 57 · Monday, December 21 · Locked room · Case file The Longest Night The winter solstice, a lantern walk in the snow, and the one piece of iron that can hang a man.
  28. Case 58 · Tuesday, December 22 · Forged document · Case file The Postponed Search Finale, part one. A Board notice that buys somebody two weeks, a chairman who never signed it, and four typewriters in town.
  29. Case 59 · Wednesday, December 23 · Timeline · Case file The Cave Under the Point Finale, part two. A smugglers' cave under Point Cottage, eight canvas bags gone, and a coastguard who logged every lantern.
  30. Case 60 · Thursday, December 24 · Alibi web · Case file The Owl on Christmas Eve Finale, part three. Christmas Eve on Tidewater Street, a boat at eleven, and the book that names every hand the Owl ever paid.

Ranks

Every case you solve on this device counts toward your rank, in every season. A sharp solve is right on the first accusation, within the case's par of questions.

  • Constable: where everyone starts.
  • Detective: 3 cases solved.
  • Sergeant: 8 cases solved, 3 of them sharp.
  • Inspector: 15 cases solved, 8 of them sharp.
  • Chief Inspector: 25 cases solved, 15 of them sharp.

Before the snow there was the rain: every case of Season 1, The Wet Season, stays open to play too.