Murder at the Christmas Bookshop
Snow at the window, coffee in the café corner and a body between the shelves. Forty cozy murders in an old bookshop, and every one of them can be solved with pure logic.
English, German & Dutch editions
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Every Cludoku book: murder mysteries you solve with logic. Our new Christmas book also comes in Dutch and as a PDF to print at home.
Paperback shipping: €4,95 within the Netherlands, €7,95 to Belgium
PDF to print at home, available now · paperbacks coming soon
Death at the Beach
Sun, sand and a body on the promenade. Forty seaside murders, and every one of them can be solved with pure logic.
Alpine Mysteries
Snowed in, fondue on the table, and one guest who will not see the thaw. Forty murders in the mountains, solved with nothing but logic.
Murder on the Rails
A night express, a sleeper cabin and a passenger who never reaches the next station. Forty murders on board, solved with pure logic.
The Cludoku Casebook
A mansion, a cruise ship, a film set, a bakery at dawn: forty murders in eight settings, and logic is the only alibi that holds.
Hard Cases
No warm-up, no hand-holding. Thirty-two hard cases on big floor plans with crowded suspect lists, for solvers who finished the easy ones over breakfast.
The briefing
Three laws of the scene
Each case is a single moment, frozen: the instant the deed was done. Everyone present is sitting, standing or lying somewhere on the floor plan, and each has given a statement about where. Rebuild the scene square by square – once everyone is back in place, the guilty party has nowhere left to hide.
Your assignment
Rebuild the scene, then name the guilty: the only suspect who ended up in the same room as the victim.
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One per line
Nobody – the victim included – shares a row or a column with anyone else. Place one person and their whole row and column close for everybody else.
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Mind the furniture
People stand on bare floor or sit or lie on the furniture made for it. Other furniture is in the way – nobody can be on those squares. Each case's key shows which is which.
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Alone with the body
Exactly one suspect ends up in the same room as the victim. That suspect is guilty – and the victim counts as a person in every clue.
When will my book arrive?
The PDF arrives by email straight after checkout. The paperbacks of Murder at the Christmas Bookshop are coming soon, the Dutch edition first, shipped from the Netherlands: leave your email on the book page and we will send you one email the day you can order.
Paperback or PDF – how does the PDF work?
Murder at the Christmas Bookshop also comes as a PDF: the whole book – every case, tip-off and verdict – as A5 pages to print at home. You get it by email straight after checkout, together with the mini-ebook The Night Before Advent (also free to download on its own). Print the cases one at a time or all at once, in colour or black and white.
How much is shipping?
PDFs never cost shipping: the download link comes by email. Our paperback ships from the Netherlands: €4.95 within the Netherlands and €7.95 to Belgium; the rate is shown in your cart before you pay.
English, German or Dutch – what's the difference?
None in the puzzles: every language edition of a book contains the same cases. Our books come in English and German; Murder at the Christmas Bookshop also comes in Dutch. Pick the language you want to read the statements and solutions in when you add the book to your cart.
Which book should I start with?
Murder at the Christmas Bookshop: forty cozy cases in an old bookshop in the weeks before Christmas, starting with gentle warm-ups. New to Cludoku? The Cludoku Casebook and the themed books start gently too. Every book opens with a briefing and a fully worked Case Zero. Hard Cases is for experienced solvers only.
Can I return a book?
Paperbacks: you can withdraw from your purchase within 14 days of receiving your book (return postage is paid by you; damaged or misprinted books need not be returned). If a book arrives damaged or misprinted, we replace it or refund you. PDFs: you can withdraw within 14 days of your purchase, unless you agreed at checkout that the download starts straight away and confirmed that you then lose your right of withdrawal. If a file does not open or is faulty, write to us and we fix it or refund you. Returns and refunds.