The cases for 2026-06-22

By the time the chapel bells rang, every story matched: locked library, missing volume, a corridor of scholars who saw nothing. The rooms know better. Place every professor before the college calls its hearing. 4 fellows, 4 rooms, and no two accounts that quite agree — start with Sister Beaumont.

1. 1. Dr. Rosendale was in the room right before the scholar reading the map of antiquity.
2. 2. Dr. Rosendale was right next to the one who claimed to be at the muniment room.
3. 3. The scholar reading the star chart was somewhere before the scholar reading the book of hours in the line.
4. 4. Provost Crewe was right next to the scholar reading the star chart.
5. 5. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was right next to the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar.
6. 6. Dr. Rosendale and the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar are the same person.
7. 7. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar.
8. 8. The scholar reading the book of hours and the one who claimed to be at the bell tower are the same person.
9. 9. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was somewhere before the one who claimed to be at the lecture theatre in the line.
10. 10. Dr. Albright was in the room right before the scholar reading the star chart.
11. 11. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was in the room right before the scholar reading the star chart.

Snowed in, counted, and one short at breakfast. The cabins along the ridge held every visitor overnight — the drifts kept them honest about leaving, not about where. Work out who stayed in which. The file names 5 visitors; Finn Aldous's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. The skier in the quilted gilet was in the cabin right before the one who skied in on the toboggan.
2. 2. Karin Ahlberg was in the cabin right before the skier in the black shearling.
3. 3. The skier in the quilted gilet was somewhere before the one who skied in on the ski lift in the line.
4. 4. Dietrich Vahl was right next to the skier in the quilted gilet.
5. 5. The skier in the loden cloak was in the cabin right before the one who skied in on the horse sleigh.
6. 6. The skier in the loden cloak was right next to the one who skied in on the horse sleigh.
7. 7. Dietrich Vahl was right next to the one who skied in on the horse sleigh.
8. 8. Henrik Dale was in the cabin right before the one who skied in on the cable car.
9. 9. Karin Ahlberg was in the cabin right before the one who skied in on the ski lift.
10. 10. Dietrich Vahl was somewhere before the skier in the red parka in the line.
11. 11. The skier in the loden cloak was right next to the one who skied in on the snowshoes.
12. 12. Lukas Brandt and the one who skied in on the horse sleigh are the same person.
13. 13. Karin Ahlberg and the one who skied in on the toboggan are the same person.
14. 14. Karin Ahlberg was in the cabin right before Finn Aldous.

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. Statements were taken from all 5 company members; Mauro Castellani's is the first page.

1. 1. The one holding the folding fan was somewhere before the one holding the laurel wreath in the line.
2. 2. The performer in the crimson gown was right next to whoever was last seen at the final blackout.
3. 3. Petra Halvorsen was right next to the one holding the wooden dagger.
4. 4. The performer in the velvet cloak was in the dressing room right before the one holding the lute.
5. 5. Petra Halvorsen and the performer in the velvet cloak are the same person.
6. 6. Bianca Orsini was in the dressing room right before the one holding the folding fan.
7. 7. The performer in the tattered cape and the one holding the folding fan are the same person.
8. 8. Bianca Orsini was in the dressing room right before the performer in the tattered cape.
9. 9. Whoever was last seen at the duet finale was in the dressing room right before whoever was last seen at the houselights down.
10. 10. Bianca Orsini was right next to the one holding the shepherd's crook.
11. 11. Emil Sandoval was in the dressing room right before the one holding the laurel wreath.
12. 12. Della Fontaine was somewhere before the one holding the shepherd's crook in the line.
13. 13. Bianca Orsini and the one holding the lute are the same person.
14. 14. Petra Halvorsen was in the dressing room right before the performer in the plumed helmet.
15. 15. Emil Sandoval was in the dressing room right before whoever was last seen at the houselights down.
16. 16. Whoever was last seen at the encore was in the dressing room right before whoever was last seen at the duet finale.