These are the sixteen clues exactly as the book prints them — every one true, every one a knife. Without the ledger they cut nothing; with it, they cut 40,547 entries down to almost none.
Beside the first clue the book stamps a reminder: spaces don't count — GOLD COAST = 9.
Her city's name is longer than four letters.
The letters J, F and K never appear in her city's name.
Her city's name is not exactly seven letters long.
No letter in her city's name appears twice in a row (SANTA ANA squeezes to SANTAANA).
Her city's name contains at least two different letters from this set: A · B · D · O · P · Q · R.
Her city lies east of the Prime Meridian.*
An Olympic host city is printed no more than four pages from her page.*
Her city is not one of the ten burned safehouses.
Her city's name does not begin with the letter R.
She is not on any page where SAMARKAND is printed.
At least one city name appears more than once on her page.
The page facing hers contains a listed capital.*
All five postcard cities appear somewhere in her chapter.
Reading the ledger front to back, she comes after the entry ZANZIBAR and before the entry VALPARAISO.
Fewer than three names on her page begin with the letter C.
A three-letter city is printed no more than ten names away from her (before or after — even across a page break).
* The lists for these clues wait at the back of the book — and only the names on them count.
The seventeenth is not in this book. It is not on this page either. When exactly two cities are left standing, go to the final clue.