Murder on the Midnight Express: An Interactive Murder Mystery Puzzle Book

An Inspector Graves Casefile · Digital edition for iPad and Android

Christmas, 1888. The Midnight Express steams north through the snow with a brand-new sleeping car and a railway king aboard. Somewhere between Grantham and York it plunges into a long, dark tunnel. By the time it reaches York, Sir Octavius Crane is dead in a compartment bolted from the inside.

Inspector Lionel Graves needs a sharp-eyed assistant. That's you.

How it plays

Every puzzle is a corner of the Midnight Express. Solve the word search, and the one word you can't find is your clue word. Slot it into the cryptogram on the facing page to crack the code and uncover a piece of evidence.

But not every clue can be trusted. Some are genuine, some are red herrings, and every red herring is answered by another clue somewhere in the file. Test each alibi against the railway timetable and each route against the locks of the sleeping car, then name the killer.

Inside the case file

• 40 themed word searches: 13×13 grids with 440 hidden words, plus a clue word in every list
• 40 cryptogram clues: statements, letters, telegrams and police notes, each set on the document it was found on
• 8 railway deduction puzzles: timetable tests and compartment-access problems
• 7 person-of-interest pages: period portraits, police descriptions, property found at York, and a notes panel for your own deductions
• The train timetable, a plan of the sleeping car and the Rules of the Aurora
• A suspect tracker and clue ledger to keep your case in order
• A sealed envelope and the full solution, with every clue explained and every red herring accounted for

About 15 hours of play.

Built for your tablet

• Two files included: iPad (158 pages) and Android (160 pages)
• Tabbed like a real police file, with over 2,600 working links: tap a tab to jump to any act, suspect or answer, and tap back to your puzzle
• Works in GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo and other PDF apps that support links
• Write straight onto the pages with your stylus

Book 3 of the Inspector Graves Casefiles, and a complete mystery on its own. Perfect for fans of cozy historical mysteries, railway stories, escape rooms and puzzle books with a story.

This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. For personal use only.