The Veil of the Lady
A bitter morning has settled over Realm of the Crown: something precious has vanished without a trace. The Chancellery has set every other file aside: until what was taken returns, no one sleeps easy. The testimonies keep returning to the same names: Margica the Innkeeper, Damaschin the Healer and Abbot Corvus. Rumor walks the deed through every corner: the abbey library, the throne room and the queen's garden. Take up the quill, follow the thread of the clues, and set your seal upon the verdict.
Suspects
At the Golden Boar inn, wine and secrets are spilled in equal measure. She never forgets a debt - or a word let slip.
1.61 m
right-handed
dark eyes
chestnut hair
He knows the cure for any illness and the dose at which the cure becomes something else. He swears he has never mistaken the dosage.
1.71 m
left-handed
green eyes
grey hair
He raises ravens in the abbey tower. His birds arrive faster than any messenger - and cannot be held to account.
1.78 m
right-handed
dark eyes
bald
Locations
the abbey library
Thousands of leather-bound tomes. Some of the chains on the shelves were cut recently.
the throne room
Gold, purple, and the most closely watched place in the kingdom. In theory.
the queen's garden
Roses trimmed to a line and paths you may walk only by invitation. At night, the hedge has ears.
Open the Grid (below) to solve the case, with the testimonies at hand.
Touch a cell: blank → ✗ (excluded) → ✓ (certain) → blank. Each pair of categories meets exactly once.
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Verdict
The culprit always lies; everyone else tells the truth.
- About the culprit, the Chancellery knows one thing for certain: the culprit was in the place with thousands of leather-bound tomes.
- Even the jester says it in earnest: the left-handed suspect never set foot in the place where the hedge has ears.
- The gate guard swears: the suspect with chestnut hair was in the place where all is gold and purple.