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April 2024. A notary hands over the papers of a night porter who died a few months earlier. Among his regrets is a carbon duplicate whose entries do not match the log filed in 1974. You reopen the case of Sylvie Berthaud, a 22-year-old seasonal worker who vanished on banquet night and was found three months later. Two mechanical clocks disagree, three wage files do not come out right, and the key to the enciphered message is calculated from what is missing.
What's included
- ✓The review briefing: what the notary's packet reopens, and what it does not settle
- ✓Twelve exhibits to print: a carbon night log, wage files, telegrams, a coded letter, an exhibit plate
- ✓Your working sheets: hours and sums, table of people, conclusions report
- ✓Four levels of hints online, from a simple reminder to an intermediate conclusion
- ✓One week of portal access, counted from your first opening, not from the purchase
- ✓The full solution online, which opens once you have named the responsible person
The hardest cold case in the catalogue: nothing reads correctly until every hour has been brought back to one clock, and the key to the cipher comes out of an addition of wage slips. The solution is not in the PDF: it lives on a portal that your code opens.
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Cold case / 1970s
The Winter of '74
One night. Two clocks. A rewritten case file.
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