DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.956 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE EMPTY HOUR
An apothecary's dispensary, Edwardian, driving rain, labelled jars, a missing bottle.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Giles Hart, manager of the Lyceum, was found dead behind the counter of Wren's dispensary after closing, a bottle gone from the poison shelf and the register unsigned. The rain had not let up since noon. One fact stands settled: the parish register records every confession Father Ambrose Dell heard that evening, timed and initialled in his own hand, and the hour in question stands empty in it. Five were near the shop. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— E.B.— Estelle Bray
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— E.S.— Edith Stannard
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— R.G.— Roland Greaves
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— P.C.— Percy Crow
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— L.W.— Lavinia Wren
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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