The Rose's Story
Eldridge, northwest England, St. Valentine's morning, 1925. A port city of gaslight and theatres, where aristocrats' daughters study Latin at Cranwell and the East End foundries swallow men whole.
On the frosted lawn beneath the bell-tower of Rosestone Library lies Matilda Beckett — twenty years old, a foundry-man's daughter who fought her way into an aristocrats' college on talent and a famous, scandalous love-poem. The great rose window above her is smashed; a hammer rests in her dead hand; the door was barred from the inside. The precinct is already writing suicide.
But Matilda had, that very week, won a full scholarship to Oxford — and was invited up that tower, on St. Valentine's night, by an old friend. Girls like that do not jump. Sergeant Henry brings you the file before the inquest can close it.
- 🗺️ A clickable city map: twenty doors across four districts — knock anywhere, but every visit costs time
- 🔍 Investigate scenes Holmes-style: clues hide inside the prose; pin physical evidence and spoken leads to your corkboards
- 🧑🤝🧑 A live suspect board: motives, alibis and suspicion that move as you dig — and witnesses who lie to protect a lover, a name, a faith, a sister
- ⏱️ Three periods a day, two actions each — the trail cools if you dawdle
- ⚖️ When you're ready, walk into Thames Precinct and make your accusation. Right or wrong, the truth comes out — and gets graded.
A fair-play whodunit: everything you need is findable. Whether you find it — and how much of the rot beneath it you drag into the light — is another matter.