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CASE FILE No.907 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE FAST CHURCH CLOCK
He set his whole night by the church clock. The clock had run half an hour fast for days.
INCIDENT REPORT. Walter Foss was found at dawn at his study desk, the iron candlestick beside his ruined head. The church clock that the household kept their hours by had run half an hour fast for days; the true hour was always later than the clock declared. Five of the manor's people were awake that night. Each fixed their account to the clock they trusted. One of them leans the whole weight of an alibi on its false time.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— C.L.— Clive Larch
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— D.H.— Dorothy Hale
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— P.S.— Percy Sefton
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— I.B.— Iris Blunt
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— A.R.— Arthur Rooke
Who's lying?
Four stories hold. One won't. Name the liar.
You file one verdict.
The Bureau does not reopen the case. Sign off against —?
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