Three years ago they stood trial together for the murder of the woman he chose over her. Clue by clue, she turned herself into a survivor and him into a killer. The world wept for her, campaigned for her, called it justice.
Then the evidence cracked. She had forged all of it. He is still in a cell; she is gone.
All she left behind is this ledger: 40,547 cities, towns and ports, written in her own hand. One of them is where she is living right now.
Sixteen clues are printed in the book. Every one is true. Every one clears the innocent.
The seventeenth clue was never allowed into print. It lives here.
01. Open the ledger. Somewhere in its 208 pages of city names, she is hiding behind one of them.
02. Take the sixteen printed clues and strike out the innocent — name by name, page by page, chapter by chapter.
03. When the paper has done all it can, come back here for the clue she never wanted found.
"You were the only one who paid attention. So pay attention. — C."
Her city lies east of the Prime Meridian.
She is not on any page where SAMARKAND is printed.
The page facing hers contains a national capital.
A three-letter city is printed no more than ten names away from her.
All sixteen printed clues are on the Clues page. The seventeenth is not.