The Shadow Alibi
The photograph says noon. The shadows disagree.
Your role
Evidence is a system. Read it like one.
Use the book's time tables to identify the scene whose claimed hour is impossible.
First-case tutorial
What you actually do
- Use only the formal reference rules printed for this case.
- Compare each claimed time with the physical/background record.
- Find the single mismatch.
Formal rules
- For an analog clock in a mirror, actual time + mirror reading = 12:00.
- All clocks were synchronized before the event.
Cases in this family rotate through multiple reasoning archetypes, so higher difficulty changes the deduction structure rather than simply adding more rows.
Shadow DirectionClock ReflectionTransit TimestampTimed Decay