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CASE FILE No.936 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE ROARING FLOOR
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Geoffrey Hale, choirmaster of St. Aldhelm's, was found dead in his room at Mrs. Frost's boarding house, the storm still breaking over the town. One fact stands settled: the mill across the lane ran its full sett through the night, and the mill floor's roar filled every room of the house — the lodgers agree a voice could not carry from one room to the next, nor a cry through a shut door. Five slept, or say they slept, under that roof. One account will not hold.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— F.S.— Frank Sallow
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— C.V.— Cora Vesper
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— H.M.— Harriet Mercer
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— N.F.— Nora Frost
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— G.S.— Giles Sefton
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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