The Detective’s DeskHARD · CASE FILE
Hard · An archive’s outgoing-copy shelf
A stitched original is recovered from an outgoing parcel. Two carriers handled it, but only one received a private-sale instruction. Determine who diverted it, who knew and who followed a misleading ordinary errand.
Read the case file below, or open the interactive desk to examine records, keep notes and submit your reasoning. These are the case materials, without the solution.
The original is recovered before it leaves the secured gate. The archive’s private handover messages and shelf camera are preserved. There is no unrecorded parcel exchange.
Archive supervisor
I sent the sealed transcript for authorised copying. I did not arrange for it to leave the archive.
The original transcript’s purple stitch distinguishes it from the office duplicate.
Duty officer
I detained the courier at the archive gate.
The parcel was still sealed when I made the detention record.
Private courier
I collected the parcel under a buyer code. I knew it contained the stitched original, not a duplicate.
My fee depended on the original reaching the buyer.
Copy clerk
I carried the closed parcel to the collection shelf. Oren said it was an authorised duplicate.
I refused to sign that I had checked its contents.
Archive reader
I worked at the public reading camera during the collection.
Oren refused my request for a copy, which is why I complained.
Read each record on its own terms. A claim made by a person is different from a fact established by an independent record.
Physical record · Archive desk
Oren describes a duplicate for authorised copying. Mina replies that she can carry the sealed parcel but cannot certify its contents. No sale or removal of an original is disclosed to her.
Physical record · Archive desk
No private sale or removal of the original was approved. Nell’s public copying request was refused, but the reading camera keeps her away from the packed parcel.
Physical record · Archive desk
Oren wraps the purple-stitched original and marks it “authorised duplicate”. Mina arrives after he seals it and carries it to the shelf without opening it.
Physical record · Secured gate
The parcel contains the purple-stitched original transcript, not the stitch-free office duplicate. Leo opens it under supervision after detaining Ciro.
Physical record · Collection shelf
Oren tells Ciro that the buyer requires the purple-stitched original. Ciro’s reply accepts a fee contingent on delivering that original to the private address.
Physical record · Collection shelf
The buyer’s escrow instruction names Oren and Ciro and the stitched original. It is dated before Mina’s routine delivery task and contains no payment or instruction to her.
Physical record · Collection shelf
The same marked parcel passes from Mina’s shelf delivery to Ciro’s collection, then to Leo’s detention. Its seal remains intact.
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