Two of the statements below are false. Call both. Three wrong calls and the case goes cold.
The Cloister Scandal at Wexford College — the Crewe cross-examination The founder's feast ended early; the library's rarest volume left earlier still. Every professor turned in to a room off the old stone corridor, each with an alibi the porter cannot quite confirm. Reconstruct that corridor, room by room. 5 professors, 5 rooms, and no two accounts that quite agree — start with Provost Crewe.
The official record room Professor Reading Cover story Room 1 Don Whitlock psalm book wine cellar Room 2 Tutor Penhallow volume of sonnets archives Room 3 Warden Thorne treatise on optics chapel Room 4 Magister Finch map of antiquity boathouse Room 5 Provost Crewe alchemical manual porter's lodge
1. Warden Thorne was in the room right before the professor who claimed to be at the boathouse. 2. Provost Crewe was right next to the professor who claimed to be at the boathouse. 3. The professor reading the psalm book and the professor who claimed to be at the chapel had exactly 1 room between them. 4. Don Whitlock was in a lower-numbered room than the professor reading the treatise on optics. 5. The professor reading the treatise on optics was in a lower-numbered room than the professor reading the alchemical manual. 6. Tutor Penhallow and the professor who claimed to be at the boathouse are the same person. 7. The professor reading the alchemical manual was right next to the professor who claimed to be at the boathouse. 8. Magister Finch was somewhere after Don Whitlock but before Provost Crewe. 9. The professor reading the map of antiquity was in the room right before the professor reading the alchemical manual. 10. Warden Thorne and the professor reading the treatise on optics are the same person. 11. The professor who claimed to be at the chapel was in the room right before the professor who claimed to be at the boathouse. 12. Don Whitlock and the professor who claimed to be at the chapel had exactly 3 rooms between them. 13. The professor who claimed to be at the archives was in a lower-numbered room than the professor who claimed to be at the porter's lodge.