Rookie · 28 May 2026 · Blackwood Hall
The victim is Sir Reginald Montclair. Distinguished, silver-haired, and the very picture of institutional authority. He has represented the Crown on four continents and carries the weight of four continents' worth of secrets.
This Rookie case is set in Blackwood Hall and puts 4 suspects, 4 rooms, 4 weapons, 7 clues on the board. No detective filed a correct verdict on the day it ran.
Deduce cases are logic-grid deduction puzzles: read the clues, eliminate the impossible, and name who did it, where, and with what. This case was verified by a constraint solver as solvable by deduction alone before it was published. The solution is not published here — the only way to know is to work it out.
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