DOSSIER 01
CASE FILE No.944 STATUS: OPEN EYES ONLY
COLD CASE · PRACTICE
THE LIBEL THAT NEVER RAN
A printing house, interwar, the dead hour before dawn, ink and lead, the press still warm.
Decode each statement, then name the one liar. The cipher is the same for all five.
INCIDENT REPORT. Stanley Sallow, manager of the Lyceum theatre, was found dead on the floor of the Corvel printing house before opening, beside a set press holding a libel that never ran. One fact stands settled: the yard well had been boarded and sealed dry for a full week, the mason's docket signed and dated, and not a pail of water was drawn from it in all that time. Five had keys or business in the yard. One account will not hold.
Small numbers count each symbol's appearances.
STATEMENT No.01 ENCRYPTED
— H.H.— Hugh Hale
STATEMENT No.02 ENCRYPTED
— A.L.— Ada Lound
STATEMENT No.03 ENCRYPTED
— I.D.— Iris Dunn
STATEMENT No.04 ENCRYPTED
— A.A.— Agnes Ash
STATEMENT No.05 ENCRYPTED
— P.C.— Pearl Carrow
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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