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CASE FILE No.945 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE UNCOLLECTED PARCEL
The gun room of a country house, late-Victorian, a heatwave's dead stillness, racked barrels, a locked cabinet someone opened.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Cecil Crow, choirmaster of St. Aldhelm's, was found dead in the gun room at Farleigh Hall, the cabinet forced and a fowling piece thrown down beside him. One fact stands settled: the parcel Crow had posted two days before lay uncollected at the station office through the night, entered in the parcels ledger with its seals unbroken until the police cut them at noon. No one received it and no eye saw what it held that night. Five gave statements. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— C.B.— Calder Bly
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— W.C.— Walter Carrow
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— I.R.— Iris Reed
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— P.V.— Percy Vane
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— H.L.— Harriet Lound
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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