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CASE FILE No.920 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE STOPPED WATCH
His watch stopped at a quarter past eight. The surgeon set death near half past nine.
A watchmaker's shop crowded with a hundred ticking clocks, and one of them stopped. The dead man's own watch had halted at a quarter past eight, but the surgeon was firm the true hour of death was near half past nine, a full hour the broken watch could not account for.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Bernard Quill was found at dawn at his bench, struck down with a heavy bench-vice. His own watch had stopped at a quarter past eight, yet the surgeon set the true hour of death near half past nine. Five of the shop's people were awake that night. Each gave an account. One of them pins an alibi to the quarter past eight the stopped watch falsely shows.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— H.C.— Hugh Carrow
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— C.H.— Clara Hale
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— A.B.— Agnes Bly
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— R.S.— Ralph Stagg
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— E.C.— Edwin Cole
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The Bureau notes every assist.
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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.
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