Microcases

Quick midweek mysteries. One document. One question. Can you spot the clue?

10 microcases on file

WW-MC-2026-010
Missing Detail

A jogger discovered the body of Marcus Hale, a 34-year-old app developer, floating in the ornamental lake at Briarwood Park just after dawn...

Modern Microcase
WW-MC-2026-009
Impossible Timeline

Detective Constable Shelley of the Thames Valley Police is investigating the murder of Mr Brian Pagett, a second-hand car dealer, found...

1970s Microcase
WW-MC-2026-008
False Alibi

Sergeant Bryce of the Military Police is investigating the theft of medical supplies from the dispensary at a British Army field hospital...

1940s Microcase
WW-MC-2026-007
Contradiction

Superintendent Graves of the Brighton Constabulary is investigating the poisoning of Mrs Violet Ensworth, a wealthy widow found dead in her...

1920s Microcase
WW-MC-2026-006
Wrong Witness

Inspector Lockwood of H Division is investigating the murder of Mr Jonas Cribb, a pawnbroker, who was stabbed in his shop on Whitechapel...

Victorian Microcase
WW-MC-2026-005
Forged Document

DC Priya Anand of the Metropolitan Police is investigating the death of Mr Marcus Fell, a property developer found dead in his Canary Wharf...

Modern Microcase
WW-MC-2026-004
Missing Detail

Detective Inspector Burrows of the West Midlands CID is reviewing the post-mortem report on Mr Derek Moseley, aged 52, a scrap metal dealer...

1970s Microcase
WW-MC-2026-003
Impossible Timeline

It is November 1943 and Constable Phelps has been called to a blackout-related death in the village of Hadley Green, Kent. Mr Albert Marsh,...

1940s Microcase
WW-MC-2026-002
False Alibi

Detective Sergeant Plimpton of Scotland Yard is investigating the theft of a sapphire necklace from Lady Cavendish's jewellery box during a...

1920s Microcase
WW-MC-2026-001
Contradiction

Inspector Hargreaves has been called to the reading room of the Athenaeum Club, where a valuable first-edition Dickens has vanished from a...

Victorian Microcase