Today's three cases

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. Reader Vane was in the room right before the scholar reading the alchemical manual.
2. 2. Reader Vane was right next to the scholar reading the alchemical manual.
3. 3. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was in the room right before the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar.
4. 4. The scholar reading the alchemical manual was somewhere before the scholar reading the anatomy folio in the line.
5. 5. Dean Holloway was right next to the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar.
6. 6. Reader Vane and the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar are the same person.
7. 7. Sister Beaumont was right next to the one who claimed to be at the lecture theatre.
8. 8. The scholar reading the botanical atlas was right next to the one who claimed to be at the rose garden.
9. 9. The scholar reading the treatise on optics was somewhere before the one who claimed to be at the chapel in the line.
10. 10. The scholar reading the botanical atlas and the one who claimed to be at the wine cellar are the same person.
11. 11. The scholar reading the alchemical manual and the one who claimed to be at the chapel are the same person.
12. 12. Dean Holloway and the scholar reading the anatomy folio were exactly 3 rooms apart.
13. 13. Dean Holloway was somewhere before the scholar reading the anatomy folio in the line.

A storm, a sealed manor, and a missing heirloom. Each guest spent the evening in a different room along the great hall. Work out who was where — and with what.

1. 1. The guest drinking the port and the one carrying the silk gloves were exactly 2 rooms apart.
2. 2. The guest drinking the black coffee was somewhere before the one carrying the candlestick in the line.
3. 3. The guest drinking the madeira was right next to the one carrying the candlestick.
4. 4. The guest drinking the absinthe was somewhere after the guest drinking the sherry but before the guest drinking the port.
5. 5. Clara Voss was somewhere before the one carrying the monocle in the line.
6. 6. Esme Hart was somewhere before the guest drinking the madeira in the line.
7. 7. The guest drinking the absinthe was in the room right before the one carrying the cigar case.
8. 8. Felix Marsh was right next to the one carrying the monocle.
9. 9. The one carrying the brass key was somewhere before the one carrying the monocle in the line.
10. 10. Esme Hart and the one carrying the silk gloves are the same person.
11. 11. Felix Marsh was in the room right before Dorian Pike.
12. 12. Juniper Shaw was in the room right before the guest drinking the port.

A gold scarab vanished from the dig the night the tomb was broken into. Each member of the expedition bedded down in a different tent strung along the excavation trench. Work the line of tents, tent by tent, and name the thief.

1. 1. The one pretending to be a draftsman was somewhere before the one pretending to be a mapmaker in the line.
2. 2. Idris Faulkner was right next to the one drinking the hibiscus tea.
3. 3. The digger guarding the alabaster jar and the one pretending to be a sketch artist are the same person.
4. 4. Lucien Mercer was right next to the one drinking the ginger beer.
5. 5. The one drinking the ginger beer and the one pretending to be a draftsman were exactly 4 tents apart.
6. 6. The digger guarding the bronze dagger and the one pretending to be a language expert are the same person.
7. 7. The one drinking the hibiscus tea and the one pretending to be a surveyor are the same person.
8. 8. Penelope Drake was right next to the digger guarding the carved ushabti.
9. 9. Theo Wren was somewhere before the one drinking the goat's milk in the line.
10. 10. Yusra Kassab and the digger guarding the faience amulet are the same person.
11. 11. Theo Wren was right next to the one pretending to be a language expert.
12. 12. The digger guarding the faience amulet and the one drinking the hibiscus tea are the same person.
13. 13. The digger guarding the faience amulet was somewhere before the one pretending to be a mapmaker in the line.
14. 14. Theo Wren was somewhere before Idris Faulkner in the line.
15. 15. The one drinking the lime cordial and the one pretending to be a sketch artist were exactly 4 tents apart.
16. 16. Lucien Mercer and the one drinking the goat's milk are not the same person.