The cases for 2026-08-15

A rare orchid worth a small fortune was cut and stolen the night it finally bloomed. Each botanist tended a different glasshouse along the garden path. Sort out who worked where before the curator counts the pots. 4 botanists, 4 glasshouses, and no two accounts that quite agree — start with Tobias Crane.

1. 1. Tobias Crane was in the glasshouse right before the botanist tending the bonsai pine.
2. 2. Ingrid Solveig and the botanist tending the night orchid had exactly 2 glasshouses between them.
3. 3. The botanist carrying the wire trellis was in a lower-numbered glasshouse than the botanist carrying the grafting knife.
4. 4. Tobias Crane and the botanist carrying the soil trowel had exactly 1 glasshouse between them.
5. 5. Petra Vance and the botanist tending the blue lotus had exactly 2 glasshouses between them.
6. 6. The botanist tending the blue lotus was right next to the botanist carrying the grafting knife.
7. 7. The botanist tending the passion vine and the botanist carrying the soil trowel had exactly 1 glasshouse between them.
8. 8. Ingrid Solveig and the botanist tending the blue lotus are the same person.
9. 9. The botanist tending the night orchid was right next to the botanist carrying the wire trellis.
10. 10. The botanist carrying the grafting knife was somewhere after the botanist carrying the magnifying loupe but before the botanist carrying the soil trowel.
11. 11. The botanist tending the night orchid was in the glasshouse right before the botanist carrying the wire trellis.
12. 12. The botanist tending the passion vine was in the glasshouse right before the botanist carrying the grafting knife.
13. 13. The botanist tending the night orchid was in the glasshouse right before the botanist tending the passion vine.
14. 14. The botanist tending the bonsai pine was right next to the botanist carrying the wire trellis.
15. 15. Tobias Crane was right next to the botanist carrying the grafting knife.

The chief steward logged every first-class passenger to a cabin on the promenade deck. Then the lights dimmed for the captain's toast, and a diamond brooch vanished mid-ocean. The log is torn — restore it, cabin by cabin. The file names 5 passengers; Beatrice Lyle's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. The passenger in the pinstripe waistcoat and whoever spent the evening at the cocktail bar are the same person.
2. 2. The passenger in the captain's blazer and whoever spent the evening at the purser's desk had exactly 3 cabins between them.
3. 3. Beatrice Lyle was in the cabin right before whoever spent the evening at the music salon.
4. 4. Rafael Mendoza was in the cabin right before the passenger in the pinstripe waistcoat.
5. 5. Rafael Mendoza and whoever spent the evening at the smoking room had exactly 1 cabin between them.
6. 6. Honoria Pratt was in a lower-numbered cabin than whoever spent the evening at the smoking room.
7. 7. Ingrid Solberg was right next to the passenger in the crimson kimono.
8. 8. Whoever spent the evening at the cocktail bar was in the cabin right before whoever spent the evening at the smoking room.
9. 9. Whoever spent the evening at the observation deck was in the cabin right before whoever spent the evening at the music salon.
10. 10. Rafael Mendoza was in a lower-numbered cabin than whoever spent the evening at the smoking room.
11. 11. Theo Marchetti was in the cabin right before the passenger in the crimson kimono.
12. 12. The passenger in the pinstripe waistcoat was in a lower-numbered cabin than the passenger in the velvet cloak.

The reel of the final scene vanished from the lot the night the picture wrapped. Each member of the crew waited out the search on a different soundstage down the backlot row. Trace the row, stage by stage, and find who took it. 5 crew members, 5 soundstages, and no two accounts that quite agree — start with Otto Lindqvist.

1. 1. Whoever wrapped at 10 pm was in the soundstage right before whoever wrapped at 7 pm.
2. 2. The lead actress and whoever wrapped at 8 pm are the same person.
3. 3. Hal Ridley was in the soundstage right before whoever wrapped at 6 pm.
4. 4. The sound mixer was in a lower-numbered soundstage than the lead actress.
5. 5. Hal Ridley was in the soundstage right before Lars Aberg.
6. 6. Otto Lindqvist was right next to whoever wrapped at 10 pm.
7. 7. The crew member holding the prop revolver was right next to whoever wrapped at 6 pm.
8. 8. The crew member holding the glass goblet was right next to whoever wrapped at 6 pm.
9. 9. Lars Aberg was in the soundstage right before whoever wrapped at 10 pm.
10. 10. Sid Brennan was in a lower-numbered soundstage than whoever wrapped at 8 pm.
11. 11. The makeup artist was right next to whoever wrapped at 9 pm.
12. 12. Sid Brennan was in the soundstage right before the camera operator.
13. 13. The prop master was in the soundstage right before the crew member holding the reel canister.
14. 14. The crew member holding the glass goblet was in the soundstage right before whoever wrapped at 6 pm.
15. 15. The makeup artist and the crew member holding the fake telegram are the same person.