DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.953 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE SPLIT BELLOWS
A private chapel, late-Victorian, driving rain, candle-wax and cold stone.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Leo Stannard, dealer in church antiquities, was found dead in the private chapel at Ashfield Court, come down to value the altar plate, the case open and one piece gone. One fact stands settled: the organ bellows had split on Sunday and hung dead, the tuner's report dated and the torn leathers photographed; not a note could be raised from that instrument all week. The chapel stood silent. Five were about the court that evening. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— B.G.— Beatrice Greaves
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— A.R.— Agnes Reed
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— H.T.— Hester Thorne
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— G.M.— Giles Mercer
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— E.P.— Edmund Pike
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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