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CASE FILE No.937 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE DEAD LINE
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Tom Thorne, pawnbroker of Halt Lane, was found dead beneath the signal box steps in the white heat of morning, his shop keys still in his fist. One fact stands settled: the telephone line was down across the whole village from midday — the exchange's fault book logs the break at the river crossing, and no call passed in or out until the linesmen made repair at dawn. Five were about the halt that evening. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— C.L.— Cora Lound
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— H.C.— Hugh Calloway
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— C.H.— Constance Hart
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— C.R.— Calder Rooke
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— B.V.— Beatrice Vane
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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