Rookie · 9 June 2026 · Blackwood Hall
The victim is Cornelius Ashworth-Vane. A distinguished barrister whose immaculate record conceals debts accumulated at the gaming tables. Speaks in careful, measured sentences that rarely mean what they appear to.
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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