Inspector · 2 June 2026 · Blackwood Hall
The victim is Maximilian Brauer. The most celebrated baton in the empire, tyrannical in rehearsal and incandescent in performance. Off the podium he is given to passionate rages over small slights.
This Inspector case is set in Blackwood Hall and puts 4 suspects, 4 rooms, 4 weapons, 9 clues on the board. 4 detectives filed a correct verdict on the day it ran. Detectives who cracked it took a median of 1 minute.
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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