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Small-Town Secrets

Small-Town Secrets · An online detective gameThink You Can Solve a Murder?

Read the police reports. Question the witness statements. Find what doesn’t add up, and solve the case yourself.

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  • Police reports, witness statements, CCTV stills
  • A new episode every Sunday
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  • The Bellweather Case · Episode 5
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Complete case

The Bellweather Case, Part One and Part Two

About $0.75 an episode · about 11.5 to 14.5 hours in all.

Part Two opens Sunday 20 December.

Full price $14.99With the code, $8.9940% off with code FIRSTSHIFT. Type the code at checkout. Ends 25 Dec.

Launch price until Sunday 31 January 2027

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Read the town paper: The Bellweather Herald

Looking for an earlier case? Cases keeps every case we’ve opened.

How it works

The police have their evidence. What do you see?

  1. The desk open on a police vehicle recovery report, with a row of exhibit tabs above it and the player’s notebook beside it.

    Open the exhibits.

    Each episode is a set of exhibits: police reports, witness statements, photographs and logs. Each one opens full screen.

  2. A box being drawn round one paragraph of a police CCTV evidence log, with Mark a line switched on above it.

    Mark what matters.

    Spot a line that matters? Draw a box around it and write what it tells you, in your own words.

  3. A timeline of one Saturday evening: three moments in order, each with the mark it came from and a note in the player’s words.

    Build your timeline.

    Add a time to anything you marked and it goes on your timeline, in order. The gaps show where the story stops adding up.

New evidence every Sunday.

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