The Goblin Who Set the Saturday Puzzle

About this book

In the wool town of Mossbridge, where lamps hold bottled wisps and a goblin's word in court weighs exactly half a human's, Oddery Pask sets type by night and, in secret, the Saturday puzzle everyone loves. Her only reader in on the secret is old Alder Fenwick, Keeper of the Weighhouse, her pen-friend of seven years. One Saturday at dawn she opens his latest letter: cheerful, gossipy, and ending in seven riddles. By breakfast Fenwick is dead at the foot of his ladder, the town's sworn Brass Pound is missing, and Oddie's nephew Pim, who lit the Weighhouse lamp at dusk, is under arrest. Pim's own account counts for half. Oddie's would too. But a goblin who cannot testify can still set a puzzle, and Fenwick's last one may be the only witness left. How do you get a whole town to solve it in time?