DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.961 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE TIDE THAT HELD
A private opera box, late-Victorian, a gale, gilt and red plush.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Leo Sefton, steward of the Harlowe estate, was found dead in the family's private box at the opera house after the last curtain, the gale still working at the roof slates. One fact stands settled: the tide held high through the night by the harbourmaster's table, and the foreshore lay under water until the ebb near dawn. No sand was walked below the town that night. Five were in the house. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— M.V.— Mary Vane
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— C.S.— Cora Stannard
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— E.C.— Edwin Carrow
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— H.L.— Hugh Larch
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— G.A.— Geoffrey 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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