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CASE FILE No.931 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE EMPTY CUT
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Cecil Larch, manager of the county bank, was found dead in the club cellar before dawn, the night's takings from the card room gone from his case. The club stands hard on the canal, its cellar door opening to the towpath. One fact is settled: the lock at Marsh Basin was drained for repair from six that evening, the cut emptied to the mud, and the lock-keeper's book shows no water let back before morning. No boat floated that stretch all night. Five men remained in the club. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— C.S.— Crispin Stannard
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— G.P.— Geoffrey Pyne
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— M.C.— Mabel Cole
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— W.V.— Walter Vane
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— E.C.— Edith Crow
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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