# The Lantern in the Snow

Case file AL-01. New Year's Eve, 1984. Five old friends, one snowbound Swiss chalet, and a lantern on the mountain that nobody can explain. By dawn, one of them is lying dead in the snow.

- Players: 2–6
- Time: 150–180 minutes
- Difficulty: hard
- Age: 18+

On New Year's morning 1985, Rupert Hale was found frozen beside a wayside shrine below Chalet Bergruh in the Swiss Alps, where he had brought back four old friends from the ski season of 1974–75. His body has come home to England, and H.M. Coroner has summoned you as the jury. The Swiss police file, translated for the court, is in your hands: decide how Rupert Hale came by his death.

## What's in the file

- 3 envelopes, opened one at a time
- 27 papers: reports, letters, statements and photographs
- About 35 pages to print at home, on A4 or US Letter
- Hints and the full solution, read on screen

## Inside the envelopes

### Envelope 1: The Lantern Girl

- Briefing letter
- Crime-scene photograph
- Police report
- Evidence photographs
- Floor plan
- Map
- Coded notebook
- Witness statements
- Diary pages
- Postcard

### Envelope 2: Who Walked with the Lantern?

- Police report
- Evidence photographs
- Fingerprint card
- Torn paper to fit together
- Medical report
- Witness statements
- Newspaper

### Envelope 3: The Laboratory

- Investigator's note
- Medical report
- Inventory
- Receipts and tickets
- Witness statements × 2
- Logbook pages
- Tape log
- Photograph
- Timeline sheet

Content: One death off the page, no gore; drinking, an affair and mild swearing

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