DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.910 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE SNOWBOUND LODGE
The snow lay clean to the gate by nine. By dawn a guest lay dead, the snow still unmarked.
INCIDENT REPORT. Hector Pyne was found at dawn in the trophy hall, struck once with the iron poker from the great hearth. The snow had fallen clean to the gate by nine and lay unmarked till morning; no track broke it in either direction, so no soul came or went. Five of the party were awake in the lodge that night. Each gave an account of the long cold hours. One of them swears to a walk the unbroken snow proves was never taken.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— L.S.— Leo Stagg
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— M.H.— Maud Hart
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— C.W.— Cecil Wren
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— A.C.— Agnes Cole
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— P.B.— Percy Blunt
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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