The first hundred

Murdle Volume 1

Volume 1 is the first 100-puzzle collection. Its authorized preview includes a worked tutorial, the deduction grid and an introduction to the four difficulty bands.

Original case-file illustration for an independent Murdle guide — Original case-file artwork made for this independent guide.

Original ink diagram of a deduction grid on a manila case file — Original diagram of the cross-reference grid. The live grid stays on murdle.com.

The subtitle used by the publisher is along the lines of 100 devilishly devious murder-mystery logic puzzles, climbing from Elementary to Impossible. Profile Books lists UK ISBN 9781800818026 with publication date 2023-06-22. The US ISBN I am willing to print is 9781250892317. Korean and Italian editions are linked from the official market page; I do not invent their ISBNs here.

Waterstones Gift of the Year 2023 and the British Book Awards Overall Book of the Year 2024 are the prizes Profile and the official about text attach to this phenomenon. I am not restating a sales rank as if I had checked a chart today beyond the market page's own bestseller line.

Source: Profile Books. ISBN and date. Accessed 2026-10-01.

Questions and answers

Is there a Volume 1 PDF?

Not a free full file from the publisher that I will mirror. Use the look-inside preview, a library, or an ebook you buy. See the PDF page.

What about puzzles 5 and 52?

Those hint pages teach the method. They do not replace the book.

Keep going

Puzzle 5 hints

Opening-band method.

Errata

Known misprints.