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CASE FILE No.933 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE HUNDRED STOPPED CLOCKS
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Percy Sefton, owner of the Calder mills, was found dead in Marlow's watch shop at closing, among a hundred clocks the watchmaker had stopped for regulating, every face set to noon. One fact stands settled: the town drawbridge over the navigation was hauled up at dusk for the coal barges and not lowered until first light, the bridge-keeper's winch log unbroken through the night. No soul crossed the water after dark. Five had business in the lane that evening. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— H.S.— Hugh Stagg
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— S.M.— Sybil Mercer
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— A.S.— Arthur Stoke
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— C.H.— Cecil Hale
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— M.V.— Marlow Vesper
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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