The Missing Candle is a reliably quiet pub in Veilgarden – the drinks are cheap, the food is... extant. These days it is best known as the meeting place of a very exclusive club – one that happens to include you.

The Candlefinder Society – the five greatest detectives in London – regularly meet to talk shop. Sometimes, you join forces to unravel the city’s most unusual mysteries. Today we're releasing another new case for you to solve: the Case of the Pince-Nez Pirates.

Somebody has absconded with the Implacable Detective's second-best pince-nez, and the Urchin Detective is determined that they'll not get away with it! The crime may be trivial, but the chase is not – the trail leads down to the docks, and across the wide Unterzee. What could possibly be the motive for a crime such as this?

This case is available for free, and requires a measure of progress in the Evolution storyline to access.

Getting Started

Candlefinder mysteries are episodic stories set in London, available from the midgame onwards. To unlock the Candlefinder Society:

Complete ‘A Name in Seven Secret Alphabets’ (raise that quality to 7)
Complete ‘A Name Whispered in Darkness’ (raise that quality to 7)
Raise your unmodified Watchful to 90 or more

If you meet those conditions, you can gain access to the Candlefinder Society by drawing a guaranteed card in London. Once started, cases must be finished before you can start another one or replay a past case. Some, like this one, require additional progress in other storylines, or higher stats, to begin. Cases can be replayed; Fate cases don’t cost anything to replay. The reward for completing a given case for the first time is more substantial.