The Morning Case

Metropolitan Police · A Daily Dispatch

Pour the tea. Fill the pipe. Can you crack today's case before the gas-lamps gutter?

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The investigator's procedure

Three steps to a verdict

The Morning Case runs on a method as old as the magnifying glass — and a logic that holds up under cross-examination.

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Read the file

Each morning a fresh case lands at The Morning Case — setting, victim, suspects under caution, weapons of opportunity, and a sequence of clues released as quickly as you can stomach.

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Reason it out

A clickable deduction grid plays the part of your notebook. Mark certainty with a tick and exclusion with a cross — the ledger never lies, but it never solves the case for you.

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Submit your verdict

One verdict per case. No second guesses. A wax seal closes the file in green or red, and your score, streak, and rank update in front of the assembled detectives.

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Each closed case advances your warrant. The Commissioner's chair waits for the cool-headed and the consistent.

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From the morning post

What the press say

The Times№ MMXXVI

Letters page · Tuesday

A morning ritual restored

Have not enjoyed the morning paper so since the days of Holmes. The clues are honest; one gets only what one earns.

A.M., Chelsea

The Bystander№ MMXXVI

Boswell's Diary

Tea grew cold over the vicarage affair

It put us off our toast for a clear half-hour. The vicar of St. Cuthbert's now keeps a notebook beside the marmalade.

L.W., Yorkshire

The Strand Magazine№ MMXXVI

Reader correspondence

Confidential — she opens every dossier

My wife and I split the cases between us. She gets the suspects, I get the timeline. We pool our deductions over claret.

R.N., Bloomsbury

The Morning Case awaits a verdict.

Today's case is open at this hour. Tomorrow's is already at the typesetters.