The case file

Three inquiries.

Each one is a world with real distances and real sightlines, a folder of exhibits, and three people who will lie to you. The engine decides who gets caught, not the author — and each case leans on a different way of being impossible.

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  1. Case 011974

    The Meridian Inquiry

    Cardle Head Observatory · the night of 14 March 1974

    A place can only be seen from where it can be seen. Somebody forgot that.

    • sightline
    • travel
    • state conflict
    • instrument preconditions

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  2. Case 021923

    The Saint-Croix Sleeper

    The Lyon–Geneva express · a night in November 1923

    Sealed until Case 01 is closed with the right name.

  3. Case 031956

    The Nine O'Clock Man

    Lime Grove Studios, London · Friday 12 October 1956, live

    Sealed until Case 02 is closed with the right name.

3 cases · 9 witnesses · 24 exhibits · every line spoken aloud