50,000 Suspects. 20 Clues. One Killer: Meet One Name Remains

Imagine being handed a list of 50,000 names.

Somewhere on that list is a killer.

You have 20 clues, a pencil, and one job: eliminate the innocent until only one name remains.

That’s the premise behind One Name Remains, the new murder mystery puzzle series from Harbor & Ink Press — and unlike a traditional whodunit, you don’t simply read along while somebody else solves the crime.

You do the detective work yourself.

In One Name Remains: The Festival, you start with 50,000 potential suspects and work through 20 clues, using each piece of evidence to eliminate thousands of names from the register. The enormous crowd gradually becomes smaller. Thousands become hundreds. Hundreds become dozens.

Until eventually, there can be only one.

But perhaps festivals aren’t your idea of a perfect escape.

Perhaps you’d rather go somewhere beautiful.

Somewhere tropical.

Somewhere surrounded by brilliant blue water, white beaches and the promise of paradise.

Welcome to One Name Remains: The Island.

It looks idyllic. But paradise isn’t always innocent.

Once again, there are 50,000 suspects. Once again, you have 20 clues. And once again, somewhere among all those names is one killer.

The Island is a completely new investigation, with a new setting, new evidence and a new suspect register. Boats, arrivals, locations and movements around the island all become part of a puzzle that slowly closes in on the person responsible.

The two books may look very different, but the challenge remains the same.

Read the clues. Follow the evidence. Eliminate the suspects. Find the killer.

And these aren’t little puzzles designed to be finished over a cup of coffee.

Each One Name Remains investigation is a huge 8.5 × 11-inch puzzle book packed with hundreds of pages of evidence, suspect registers and detective work. You will write in it. Cross names out. Go backwards and forwards. Recheck clues. Question yourself. And, quite possibly, become slightly obsessed with watching that enormous list get smaller and smaller.

There’s no app required. No game board. No group of players you need to organize.

Just you, the book and a pencil.

Start with The Festival and disappear into a crowd of 50,000 people, or escape to The Island and discover that even paradise can hide a killer.

The location is your choice.

The challenge is not.

50,000 suspects. 20 clues. One killer.

Can you find the one name that remains?