The cases for 2026-07-22

Overtime was mandatory the night the accounts were cooked. Every employee swears they never moved from their desk — fine. Then the desks will testify. Work out the row, end to end. Statements were taken from all 4 employees; Quentin Ash's is the first page.

1. 1. The employee with the double espresso and the one from sales are the same person.
2. 2. Quentin Ash was somewhere after Priya Nair but before Vera Stone.
3. 3. Yusuf Demir was right next to the employee with the chai.
4. 4. The employee with the matcha latte was in the desk right before the employee with the chai.
5. 5. Vera Stone and the one from security are the same person.
6. 6. Priya Nair and the one from accounting were exactly 2 desks apart.
7. 7. Vera Stone and the employee with the chai are the same person.
8. 8. Priya Nair was right next to the employee with the double espresso.
9. 9. Vera Stone and the one from sales were exactly 2 desks apart.
10. 10. Yusuf Demir was in the desk right before the one from security.
11. 11. Quentin Ash was in the desk right before the employee with the matcha latte.
12. 12. The employee with the double espresso was right next to the one from accounting.
13. 13. Quentin Ash was right next to the one from accounting.
14. 14. The employee with the double espresso was somewhere before the one from accounting in the line.
15. 15. Priya Nair was in the desk right before the one from sales.

The cage counted true at midnight and false by close. Between those two tallies, every player kept to a private room along the row. Trace the row and find whose luck was manufactured. The file names 5 players; Émile Tournier's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. Bianca Reymond was in the room right before Romy Castellan.
2. 2. Lev Ostrovsky was somewhere after Romy Castellan but before Countess Mira Dolin.
3. 3. The roulette player was somewhere after the baccarat player but before the craps player.
4. 4. Émile Tournier was right next to whoever stacked the ivory chips.
5. 5. Émile Tournier was somewhere before whoever stacked the ivory chips in the line.
6. 6. Émile Tournier was in the room right before the sic bo player.
7. 7. Romy Castellan was somewhere before whoever stacked the crimson chips in the line.
8. 8. Bianca Reymond was right next to the high-stakes baccarat player.
9. 9. Whoever stacked the emerald chips was in the room right before whoever stacked the crimson chips.
10. 10. The high-stakes baccarat player and whoever stacked the emerald chips are the same person.
11. 11. Bianca Reymond was right next to whoever stacked the emerald chips.
12. 12. Countess Mira Dolin and whoever stacked the ivory chips are the same person.
13. 13. Whoever stacked the crimson chips was in the room right before whoever stacked the amber chips.
14. 14. Countess Mira Dolin and the sic bo player are the same person.

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. 5 fellows, 5 rooms, and no two accounts that quite agree — start with Provost Crewe.

1. 1. The scholar reading the psalm book and the one who claimed to be at the boathouse are the same person.
2. 2. The scholar reading the book of hours was right next to the one who claimed to be at the lecture theatre.
3. 3. The scholar reading the botanical atlas was right next to whoever the porter saw at quarter to ten.
4. 4. The one who claimed to be at the porter's lodge and whoever the porter saw at nine o'clock are the same person.
5. 5. The scholar reading the star chart and whoever the porter saw at quarter past eight are the same person.
6. 6. The scholar reading the botanical atlas was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the rose garden.
7. 7. Bursar Quill was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at nine o'clock.
8. 8. Provost Crewe was right next to whoever the porter saw at quarter past eight.
9. 9. Don Whitlock was in the room right before Sister Beaumont.
10. 10. The scholar reading the volume of sonnets was in the room right before whoever the porter saw at quarter to one.
11. 11. The one who claimed to be at the rose garden was somewhere after the one who claimed to be at the lecture theatre but before the one who claimed to be at the porter's lodge.
12. 12. Bursar Quill was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the porter's lodge.
13. 13. Provost Crewe was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the scriptorium.
14. 14. Sister Beaumont and the one who claimed to be at the boathouse are the same person.