Today's three cases

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 and the performer in the silver tunic are the same person.
2. 2. Cordelia Strauss was in the dressing room right before the one holding the hand mirror.
3. 3. Emil Sandoval was in the dressing room right before the one holding the prop goblet.
4. 4. Cordelia Strauss and the performer in the gold breastplate are the same person.
5. 5. Emil Sandoval was right next to the one holding the prop goblet.
6. 6. Emil Sandoval and the performer in the plumed helmet are the same person.
7. 7. The performer in the plumed helmet was somewhere before the one holding the prop goblet in the line.
8. 8. The performer in the silver tunic was somewhere before the one holding the shepherd's crook in the line.
9. 9. The one holding the hand mirror was in the dressing room right before the one holding the prop goblet.
10. 10. The performer in the jester's motley was right next to the one holding the prop goblet.
11. 11. The performer in the gold breastplate was in the dressing room right before the one holding the hand mirror.
12. 12. Cordelia Strauss was somewhere before the one holding the shepherd's crook in the line.
13. 13. Cordelia Strauss was right next to the performer in the plumed helmet.
14. 14. Thaddeus Crowe was somewhere before the performer in the jester's motley in the line.
15. 15. The performer in the silver tunic was in the dressing room right before the one holding the shepherd's crook.

A fake painting surfaced at last night's opening. Each guest stopped at a different spot along the gallery wall. Trace their evening, spot by spot.

1. 1. The one looking at the woodcut and the one holding the whiskey are the same person.
2. 2. Lena Moreau was somewhere before the one holding the champagne in the line.
3. 3. Otto Krane was in the spot right before the one holding the vermouth.
4. 4. Greta Lindqvist and the one looking at the tapestry are the same person.
5. 5. The one looking at the marble torso was somewhere before the one looking at the miniature in the line.
6. 6. Lena Moreau was in the spot right before the one looking at the miniature.
7. 7. Anton Wolfe and the one looking at the marble torso are the same person.
8. 8. The one holding the negroni was in the spot right before the one holding the whiskey.
9. 9. Jasper Quill was right next to the one holding the whiskey.
10. 10. Greta Lindqvist was somewhere before the one holding the champagne in the line.
11. 11. Otto Krane was right next to the one looking at the tapestry.
12. 12. Otto Krane and the one holding the kir royale are the same person.
13. 13. The one looking at the woodcut was in the spot right before the one looking at the miniature.
14. 14. Otto Krane was somewhere before the one holding the negroni in the line.

A priceless old book vanished from the college library the night of the founder's feast, and the night porter's keys went with it. Each professor withdrew to a separate room running the length of the old cloister. Reconstruct that night, room by room, before the warden calls a hearing.

1. 1. The scholar reading the psalm book was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at quarter past eight.
2. 2. Bursar Quill was somewhere before the scholar reading the map of antiquity in the line.
3. 3. Chaplain Sykes was right next to whoever the porter saw at quarter to one.
4. 4. The scholar reading the botanical atlas was somewhere before the one who claimed to be at the boathouse in the line.
5. 5. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was somewhere before the one who claimed to be at the boathouse in the line.
6. 6. Whoever the porter saw at quarter to one was somewhere before whoever the porter saw at half past nine in the line.
7. 7. Dr. Rosendale was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at nine o'clock.
8. 8. The one who claimed to be at the muniment room was right next to whoever the porter saw at half past nine.
9. 9. The scholar reading the psalm book was right next to whoever the porter saw at quarter past eight.
10. 10. The scholar reading the treatise on optics and the one who claimed to be at the buttery are the same person.
11. 11. The scholar reading the book of hours was in the room right before the scholar reading the treatise on optics.
12. 12. Chaplain Sykes and the one who claimed to be at the buttery are the same person.
13. 13. The one who claimed to be at the boathouse was right next to whoever the porter saw at quarter to ten.
14. 14. The one who claimed to be at the muniment room and whoever the porter saw at quarter to one are the same person.
15. 15. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was right next to the one who claimed to be at the dining hall.
16. 16. Warden Thorne was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at half past nine.