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CASE FILE No.959 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
TODAY'S CASE · SUBSTITUTION CIPHER
THE NAME NOT IN THE BOOK
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Edwin Crow, watchmaker of Quay Street, was found dead in the yard behind the Tide Bell after the gale had blown itself out, his workshop keys gone. One fact stands settled: the inn's book was kept by the landlord Silas Vane through the night and every name that slept under his roof is set down in it, in his hand, as each guest went up. Five were on the harbour front. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— R.S.— Roland Stagg
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— M.F.— Maud Foss
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— E.V.— Edwin Vesper
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— C.D.— Constance Dunn
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— H.H.— Hugh Hart
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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