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Monteclare’s busy cruise port welcomes six ships that day — everything from mega party boats to high-class exclusive liners. Free time in the port floods the district: shops, bars, hotels, and the people who work them.

Group excursions all load from one place: Riddling Hall, the boarding pavilion inside the port fence. Coaches, catamarans, ferries, sailboats, snorkel boats, dive boats, and glass-bottom boats leave on a clock.

In a short midday window, there’s a death in that hall. Zarina’s list is everyone who could honestly have reached it — not “everyone in town.” You eliminate on the big list first, then dig tours, gates, and files until only one name still fits.

It’s an Expanded investigation: same three stages as Pocket, much larger scale. Case title still locking.