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CASE FILE No.942 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE PLANTED HOUR
Estate glasshouse, Edwardian, frost on the long panes, a single lamp among the orchids, the turn of a far-off beam.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Magistrate Hector Calloway was found dead among the orchid benches of the estate glasshouse at first light, frost sealing the panes and one lamp burned low. The watch on his wrist stood stopped at a quarter past eight. One fact stands settled: the police surgeon's certificate sets the true hour of death near half past nine, and the watch glass bore a crack older than the night. Any hour taken from that stopped face is a planted hour. Five kept to the estate. One account will not hold.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— A.V.— Ambrose Vane
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— B.W.— Bernard Wren
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— M.R.— Marlow Reed
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— R.B.— Reuben Bray
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— N.A.— Nora 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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