The cases for 2026-10-25

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. The file names 4 guests; Kit Lawrence's statement sits on top of the pile.

1. 1. The guest drinking the red wine and the guest carrying the brass key are the same person.
2. 2. Juniper Shaw and the guest drinking the red wine are the same person.
3. 3. Ava Sterling and the guest drinking the sherry are the same person.
4. 4. Kit Lawrence was in the room right before the guest drinking the earl grey.
5. 5. Kit Lawrence and the guest drinking the cocoa are the same person.
6. 6. Ava Sterling was right next to the guest carrying the pocket watch.
7. 7. Lavinia Crane was in the room right before the guest carrying the brass key.
8. 8. Juniper Shaw was right next to the guest drinking the earl grey.
9. 9. Juniper Shaw was right next to the guest carrying the opera glasses.
10. 10. The guest drinking the earl grey was somewhere after the guest drinking the cocoa but before the guest drinking the red wine.
11. 11. Juniper Shaw and the guest drinking the sherry had exactly 2 rooms between them.
12. 12. The guest carrying the sealed envelope was in the room right before the guest carrying the pocket watch.
13. 13. The guest drinking the sherry was in the room right before the guest drinking the cocoa.
14. 14. Kit Lawrence was right next to the guest drinking the earl grey.

Backstage at the Lyceum, the corridor of dressing rooms holds the whole company — and one very good liar. The hair-clip vanished before the final blackout. Assign every performer to a room before the reviews land. Statements were taken from all 5 performers; Lucien Beaumont's is the first page.

1. 1. The performer in the powdered wig was in the dressing room right before the performer holding the folding fan.
2. 2. Reinhold Faust and the performer in the jester's costume had exactly 3 dressing rooms between them.
3. 3. Augustin Reyes and the performer holding the ivory comb are the same person.
4. 4. The performer in the velvet cloak was right next to the performer holding the lute.
5. 5. Thaddeus Crowe and the performer holding the laurel wreath are the same person.
6. 6. Thaddeus Crowe was in a lower-numbered dressing room than the performer in the peasant smock.
7. 7. Nadia Volkova and the performer holding the folding fan had exactly 2 dressing rooms between them.
8. 8. Nadia Volkova was in a lower-numbered dressing room than the performer in the velvet cloak.
9. 9. Nadia Volkova and the performer in the peasant smock are the same person.
10. 10. The performer in the velvet cloak was in the dressing room right before the performer holding the lute.

Days from the nearest port, the Aurelia is a locked room with an ocean for a moat. The brooch left its cabin; its owner did not. Chart the promenade deck, front to back. Statements were taken from all 5 passengers; Ambrose Whitby's is the first page.

1. 1. Ambrose Whitby was in a lower-numbered cabin than the passenger getting off at Naples.
2. 2. Desmond Clay was in the cabin right before whoever spent the evening at the ballroom.
3. 3. The passenger in the velvet cloak was in a lower-numbered cabin than whoever spent the evening at the wireless office.
4. 4. The passenger in the emerald sash was right next to the passenger getting off at Naples.
5. 5. Sterling Fox was in a lower-numbered cabin than the passenger in the fur stole.
6. 6. Whoever spent the evening at the ballroom was in the cabin right before the passenger getting off at Naples.
7. 7. The passenger in the velvet cloak and the passenger getting off at Casablanca had exactly 2 cabins between them.
8. 8. Maxim Volkov was in the cabin right before the passenger in the fur stole.
9. 9. Ambrose Whitby was right next to the passenger getting off at Trieste.
10. 10. Ambrose Whitby was in a lower-numbered cabin than the passenger in the fur stole.
11. 11. Theo Marchetti and whoever spent the evening at the cocktail bar had exactly 3 cabins between them.
12. 12. The passenger in the silk evening gown was in a lower-numbered cabin than whoever spent the evening at the grand staircase.
13. 13. Desmond Clay and the passenger in the tweed suit are the same person.
14. 14. Whoever spent the evening at the cocktail bar and the passenger getting off at Gibraltar had exactly 3 cabins between them.
15. 15. The passenger in the tweed suit and the passenger getting off at Trieste are the same person.
16. 16. Whoever spent the evening at the verandah cafe was in the cabin right before the passenger getting off at Gibraltar.
17. 17. Whoever spent the evening at the cocktail bar was in the cabin right before the passenger getting off at Trieste.
18. 18. Sterling Fox and the passenger getting off at Genoa are the same person.