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The gamebook offers a variety of multimedia evidence—cartoonish photographs of the main characters, typewritten notes, news clippings, poison-pen letters—and then encourages the would-be detectives to flip back and forth until they reach their conclusion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Days later, the pair met for a third time where the double agent handed over a six-page typewritten account of covert work for the Soviet Union and how he had come to be recruited.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2025

The quantity of typewritten evidence presented at the trials—200,000 affidavits and sworn depositions of over 360 live witnesses, according to the last living signal-corps typist—all needed to be translated into English, French, Russian, and German.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

When I began my career, at the Chicago Sun-Times, I often worked desk shifts, which meant editing typewritten pages of copy that were pulled off a fax machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

As he flipped through the book, he pointed randomly at a short typewritten letter.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell