COLOR
T H E   T O W N
DEADTM
5,591 HOMES. ONE DOOR.
the murder you solve by coloring in a town — by Dot Crossley

How it works

1. Read a clue. Every clue clears a set of homes beyond doubt — alibis, witnesses, geography, timelines, and the flour trail.
2. Color them in. Each clue type keeps one pencil color, first page to last. The town fills in like a quilt.
3. One door remains. When the last clue is spent, one home in all the town is untouched. Knock. And a hidden picture has been rising out of your pencils all along.

The cases

Eight towns, all open for investigation.

Color the Town Dead: Little Dimbleby cover

Little Dimbleby

Volume 1 · 5,591 homes · 40 plates · a village that keeps its secrets

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Saltmere

Volume 2 · 5,591 homes · 40 plates · a cozy seaside whodunit, one enormous deduction

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Ashmore

Volume 3 · 5,591 homes · 40 plates · a dark academia whodunit among the cloisters

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Gravensmoor

Volume 4 · 5,591 homes · 40 plates · a gothic whodunit out on the moors

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Halloween in Hollowvale

A Halloween special · 5,591 homes · a spooky-season whodunit across lantern-lit streets

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Christmas in Tinselwick

A Christmas special · 5,591 homes · silent night, one lying door

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Advent in Calendale

A murder mystery advent · 24 days of clues · one door on Christmas Eve

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Edelmark

A winter special · 5,591 homes · a snowbound whodunit in a mountain village

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Try a free case: Willowmere

A complete little hunt — two plates, a town of 271 homes, every clue type, and a hidden picture of its own. Print it, grab five pencils, and see if it's your kind of evening.

Download the free case (PDF)

Want to hear when a new town opens its files?

The Detective's Companion

Own the book? Get the clue chapter as a phone-friendly PDF, so the book can stay open to the plates while you read and color. It contains clues only — no answers, no checksums.

The small case's solution reads: "the one uncolored door is No. 9 ___ street." What word fills the blank?