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    Professor Layton and The Game of Deceit by

    Fandoms: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series  

    18 Aug 2025

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    When Flora is sent a series of threatening letters, The Professor and Luke decipher the message behind them, and travel to Warwick Manor
    Instead of a few days of refinement and conversation, they find themselves unravelling a mystery neither of them felt comfortable to solve.
    Especially when it has something to do with the dear professor's past.

    (Or, to put it very shortly, Luke and The Professor solve a murder and then something bigger.)

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Professor Layton and the Phantom Railway by

    Fandoms: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series  

    25 Mar 2025

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    This is an Alternate Universe set in a 1930s-esque environment during a financial depression that rakes its ugly claws throughout the world. Hershel Layton is an ex-professor, having had everything ripped from him 7 years ago after an accident that leaves him homeless. He is forced to jump freights and travel relentlessly with the Government, Targent, and a strange assassin on his tail.

    Luke Triton is a boy from Misthallery, weary and worn-down from the issues brought on by the depression. When everything he knows is destroyed by money-starved Targent, he runs from what was once his home and hops into a boxcar, quietly joining the company of a then-sleeping man as the train rattles along the rails.

    Everything changes when the train is derailed and the two learn of the mysterious Phantom Railway.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    A Lullaby for an Anchor by

    Fandoms: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series  

    07 Sep 2025

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    All day on the second day it had been raining. The waves were a bit more vicious, like a dog that had been riled up a bit too much and now its eager bite was starting to leave dents in the skin. The swell tossed the boat without much regard for its passengers. Hershel and Luke stayed in their cabin most of the day, passing the time with books and puzzles, save for when they had to duck out to get food. It was much gentler with the hull than it was with the passengers. Hershel could hear the animals beneath them complaining about their seasickness. He only hoped, for their sake and for his and Luke’s, that they’d be sedated again soon.

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    Hershel Layton is sent adrift after the sinking of the SS Constance aboard a lifeboat.

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    05 Jun 2026

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    A Lot Can Change in Eleven Years by

    Fandoms: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series  

    21 Nov 2020

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    SPOILER WARNING: This takes place after the current end of canon: the 50th episode of the anime series, and heavily references the third game in the series, Unwound/Lost Future. I have tried to provide enough context for the emotional beats of this story to land for those unfamiliar with these parts of Layton canon.

    This is a story exploring the series’ recurring motif of lost time. It’s mostly a character study centered on Luke, but there’s also kind of a conspiracy plot running in tandem with that, and some focus on Luke's relationship with his canon wife. (Not my area of expertise so any romantic scenes are very brief and platonic. lol)

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    31 Mar 2026

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    The Tower of Hanoi by

    Fandoms: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series  

    15 Jul 2010

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    He's been working on this puzzle for nine long years, and the endgame begins today. He shall not lose. Not this time.

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    22 Feb 2026