DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.951 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE UNBROKEN SNOW
A gentlemen's club, interwar, river fog turned to snow, the card room, the rear court.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Albert Larch, gamekeeper to the Fenwick estate, was found dead in the rear court of the Albany Club at six, summoned to town by a letter nobody owns, the snow lying over him unbroken; he had lain there since before the fall stopped at nine. One fact stands settled: snow fell till nine and then held, and the court and mews lane lay unbroken white from nine until the constable's lamp crossed them at six; his note and his photograph agree that no track marked that snow all night. Five were in the club when the court was opened. One account will not hold.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— F.G.— Frank Greaves
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— H.T.— Harriet Thorne
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— T.C.— Tom Carrow
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— M.V.— Mary Vesper
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— C.A.— Constance Ash
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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