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CASE FILE No.939 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE SILENT GUN
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Edmund Blunt, auctioneer of the county rooms, was found dead in the toll-house parlour in the grey of morning, the keeper's strongbox open and the week's takings gone. One fact stands settled: the coroner found no gunshot wound — the blow was struck with a brass window-weight found by the hearth, and the surgeon's note is plain that no shot was ever fired in that house. Five were on the toll road that night. One account will not hold.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— A.A.— Agnes Ash
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— H.Q.— Hester Quill
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— B.M.— Beatrice Marsh
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— I.D.— Iris Dunn
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— W.T.— Winifred Thorne
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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