Season 1: Case 0
The Cloakroom
10 questions
Your job
Question the suspect below. What they let slip lands in your findings. When you know the story, write your report: who did it, how, and why, in your own words. You have 10 questions. Use them well.
A jade lighter went missing from a checked coat in the cloakroom at the Hotel Meridian last night, some time after midnight. It is green stone, worth fifty dollars, a gift from someone important. Only one person worked the cloakroom. That was Lena Varga, the young attendant. She is in the back room now, waiting. She wants very much to be liked.
The Meridian cloakroom, coat tags scattered on the counter.
A jade lighter, from the owner's insurance photo.
The suspects
Lena Varga
a young cloakroom attendant at the Hotel Meridian
What the police already hold
The lighter sat in a coat all night. Green stone, fifty dollars, left in a checked coat after midnight. Only one person worked the cloakroom.