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CASE FILE No.930 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE ORCHID HOUSE
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Magistrate Aubrey Hart was found dead among the orchid benches at first light, struck down where he stood. The glasshouse lamp had burned all night, and the frost held the panes shut fast. One fact stands settled: the church clock across the park had run a full half-hour fast for six days, and the sexton's log records it uncorrected until morning. Any hour taken from that clock that night was wrong by thirty minutes. Five kept to the estate. One account will not hold.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— T.S.— Tom Stagg
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— N.V.— Nora Vane
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— C.W.— Crispin Wren
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— C.R.— Calder Reed
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— R.B.— Reuben Bray
A revealed letter files the case as assisted.
The Bureau notes every assist.
Reveal a letter?
A pulled lead files the case as assisted.
LEAD No.1
THE SETTLED FACT
Who's lying?
Four stories hold. One won't. Name the liar.
One verdict. The case locks for the day.
You file one verdict.
The Bureau does not reopen the case. Sign off against —?
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