DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.949 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE TIDE TABLE
A lighthouse on the point, interwar, killing frost, the turning beam, the long climb.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Walter Calloway, steward of the Wrack Point estate for thirty years, was found dead at the foot of the lighthouse stair on the point, the lamp above him still turning. One fact stands settled: the tide ran over the chapel causeway from nine o'clock, the harbourmaster's table and the wet sand both past argument, and the chapel island could not be reached nor left on foot until the ebb near three. No one crossed after nine. Five were on the point that night. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— T.V.— Tom Vane
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— C.M.— Clive Marsh
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— D.S.— Dorothy Sallow
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— C.R.— Clara Rooke
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— R.C.— Reuben Crow
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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