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CASE FILE No.914 · PRACTICE EYES ONLY
MURDCRYPT
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CASE FILE No.914 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE

THE DEAD LINE

He said the dead man telephoned him at eleven. The town line was down all night.

A shopkeeper's rooms above a high-street grocer, the gas turned low and the shutters drawn. A storm had brought the telephone line down across the whole town that afternoon, and not a call could be made or taken on any instrument until the wire was mended in the morning.

Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.

INCIDENT REPORT. Frank Stagg was found at dawn in his back store, struck down with a heavy brass scale-weight. The telephone line had been down across the town since the afternoon storm; no call could pass on any instrument that night. Five of the high-street people were awake in the small hours. Each gave an account. One of them swears the dead man telephoned him, on a line that carried nothing at all.
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Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.

STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— S.R.— Silas Rooke
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— C.B.— Clara Bly
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— A.C.— Arthur Cole
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— M.H.— Maud Hale
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— E.W.— Edith Wren

A revealed letter files the case as assisted.

A pulled lead files the case as assisted.

Who's lying?
Four stories hold. One won't. Name the liar.

One verdict. The case locks for the day.

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