DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.909 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE LOCKED CELLAR
The cellar key lay in the dead man's pocket. One mourner swears he went down for wine.
A gentlemen's club gone quiet after midnight, the card room dark and the wine cellar colder still. The steward kept the cellar locked and carried its only key on his own watch-chain. A single lamp burned at the night porter's desk while the rain ran down the tall windows.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Bernard Stannard was found at dawn at the foot of the cellar stair, his skull struck in with a heavy decanter. The cellar door had been locked all night and the only key lay on the dead steward's chain; no one else could have gone down those steps. Five of the club's people were awake through the night. Each gave an account of the dark. One of them swears to an errand the locked door could never have allowed.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— W.H.— Walter Hale
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— C.B.— Clara Bly
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— P.R.— Percy Rooke
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— M.C.— Maud Carrow
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— E.G.— Edwin Greaves
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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