Today's three cases

The night manager of the Hotel Meridian was found slumped over the register, and the guest book had been altered. Each suspect took a different suite along the tower's top corridor, front to back. Sort out who stayed where.

1. 1. Julius Renard was right next to the one carrying the garnet key tag.
2. 2. The guest pretending to be the stage magician was in the suite right before the one carrying the mother-of-pearl key tag.
3. 3. Julius Renard was somewhere before the one carrying the mother-of-pearl key tag in the line.
4. 4. The guest pretending to be the art dealer and the one carrying the garnet key tag are the same person.
5. 5. Seraphina Holt was somewhere before the guest pretending to be the stage magician in the line.
6. 6. The one carrying the crystal key tag was in the suite right before the one carrying the mother-of-pearl key tag.
7. 7. Seraphina Holt was right next to the one carrying the copper key tag.
8. 8. The guest pretending to be the wine merchant was right next to the one carrying the crystal key tag.
9. 9. The guest pretending to be the art dealer was in the suite right before the one carrying the crystal key tag.
10. 10. Julius Renard was in the suite right before the one carrying the garnet key tag.
11. 11. Rosalind Carver and the guest pretending to be the wine merchant are the same person.
12. 12. The guest pretending to be the stage magician and the one carrying the crystal key tag are the same person.

A diamond brooch went missing the night the Aurelia steamed out of port. Each first-class passenger retired to a different cabin along the promenade deck, numbered bow to stern. Reconstruct the deck, cabin by cabin.

1. 1. Whoever spent the evening at the verandah cafe was in the cabin right before whoever spent the evening at the promenade rail.
2. 2. Beatrice Lyle was right next to whoever spent the evening at the promenade rail.
3. 3. The passenger in the captain's blazer and whoever spent the evening at the verandah cafe are the same person.
4. 4. Cordelia Ashe was somewhere before the passenger in the white dinner jacket in the line.
5. 5. Theo Marchetti and the passenger in the silk evening gown are the same person.
6. 6. The passenger in the velvet cloak was right next to whoever spent the evening at the wireless office.
7. 7. Beatrice Lyle was in the cabin right before the passenger in the silk evening gown.
8. 8. Vivienne Aubert was somewhere before Cordelia Ashe in the line.
9. 9. Ingrid Solberg and the passenger in the tweed suit are the same person.
10. 10. The passenger in the velvet cloak was somewhere before whoever spent the evening at the ballroom in the line.
11. 11. Theo Marchetti was right next to whoever spent the evening at the wireless office.
12. 12. The passenger in the captain's blazer was in the cabin right before the passenger in the velvet cloak.
13. 13. Theo Marchetti was in the cabin right before whoever spent the evening at the observation deck.

On closing night the lead singer's diamond hair-clip vanished between the second-act bow and the final blackout. Each member of the company waited out the chaos in a separate dressing room down the backstage corridor. Walk the corridor, door by door, and place them.

1. 1. Thaddeus Crowe was in the dressing room right before the one holding the laurel wreath.
2. 2. The performer in the gold breastplate and whoever was last seen at the final blackout are the same person.
3. 3. Whoever was last seen at the curtain call was in the dressing room right before whoever was last seen at the final blackout.
4. 4. Cordelia Strauss was right next to the performer in the gold breastplate.
5. 5. Reinhold Faust was somewhere before whoever was last seen at the overture in the line.
6. 6. Reinhold Faust was in the dressing room right before Thaddeus Crowe.
7. 7. Cordelia Strauss was somewhere before whoever was last seen at the chorus march in the line.
8. 8. The one holding the laurel wreath and whoever was last seen at the overture are the same person.
9. 9. The performer in the emerald shawl was right next to the one holding the glass vial.
10. 10. Della Fontaine and whoever was last seen at the encore are the same person.
11. 11. Thaddeus Crowe was right next to whoever was last seen at the overture.
12. 12. Reinhold Faust was right next to the performer in the gold breastplate.
13. 13. The performer in the velvet cloak was right next to whoever was last seen at the chorus march.
14. 14. Reinhold Faust was somewhere before whoever was last seen at the chorus march in the line.
15. 15. The performer in the crimson gown was right next to whoever was last seen at the curtain call.
16. 16. The one holding the tin crown was in the dressing room right before whoever was last seen at the curtain call.
17. 17. Cordelia Strauss was right next to the one holding the hand mirror.