Borrowed Time
Caldmere Public Library, Caldmere
Constance Vail, 84, donated a box of Civil War-era letters to the library's Local History Room last month. On Tuesday morning, the box is there — but the letters aren't.
Everyone has something to hide.
49. Master's in library science, second life as an amateur genealogist. Has traced half of Caldmere's family trees back to the 1700s. Polite but not warm — she cares about information more than people.
27. Nonbinary. Reserved, precise, dry. Came to Caldmere to disappear. Manages the library's digital catalog, security cameras, and alarm system — quietly overqualified for a small-town library.
67. Caldmere's institutional memory. Former Yale research librarian. Precise, genteel, unexpectedly steely. Asks questions that sound innocent and aren't.
Can you name the culprit?
Read the case file, interrogate the suspects, and make your accusation — five guesses to crack it. The deduction board and the solution are for detectives only.
Caldmere, Maine.
A small town on the Maine coast where everyone knows everyone, and nothing is quite what it seems. Explore the locations and characters behind every case.