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The squares beside the horse are R4C2, R5C1 and R6C2, and R4C2 and R6C2 are corners, so only R5C1 fits: <b>Daphne is at R5C1.</b> Alison had the ladder (R5C4) in her area and the beanbag (R6C1) in her row, so she is in the Fiction Room and in row 6: R6C3, R6C4 or R6C5. All three are in row 6, so the row is hers and its other squares are empty (R6C1, R6C2, R6C7). Ben had the sundial (R7C5) in his column: his squares R1C5, R3C5, R4C5 and R8C5 are all in column 5, so the column is his and R5C5 and R6C5 are empty – Alison loses R6C5. Frederick was in the Poetry Corner, at R2C4, R3C4 or R3C5; column 5 is Ben's, so R2C4 and R3C4 are left. Column 4 is Frederick's, and R1C4, R6C4, R7C4 and R8C4 are empty. Alison loses R6C4 too, so only R6C3 is left: <b>Alison is at R6C3.</b>"},{"place":["C"],"cand":{"B":[[4,5],[8,5]],"E":[[7,6]],"F":[[2,4],[3,4]],"G":[[2,8],[3,8]],"V":[[4,7],[7,6],[8,7]]},"text":"Charlie's squares are R1C2 and R3C2 (R4C2 is beside the rocking horse, where only Daphne may be), both in column 2, so the column is his and R4C2, R5C2, R6C2 and R8C2 are empty. Gillian had the chest (R1C8) in her area, so she is in the Map Room, and she was not beside the globe (R1C6), which rules out R1C5, R1C7 and R2C6: R2C8 and R3C8 are left, so column 8 is hers and R7C8 is empty. Now row 7 has a single free square: columns 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8 belong to Daphne, Alison, Frederick, Ben and Gillian, column 2 is Charlie's, and R7C7 holds the desk. R7C6 is the only square in row 7 where anybody can be – Eustace or Vicky – and the row needs somebody, so someone is there and the rest of column 6 is empty: R2C6, R4C6, R8C6. Frederick (R2C4, R3C4) and Gillian (R2C8, R3C8) can each only be in row 2 or row 3: two people, two rows, so both rows are theirs and nobody else may be in them – R2C1, R2C3, R2C6, R3C2, R3C5 and R3C7 are empty. Charlie loses R3C2, which leaves R1C2: <b>Charlie is at R1C2.</b>"},{"place":["E","G"],"cand":{"B":[[4,5],[8,5]],"F":[[2,4]],"V":[[4,7],[8,7]]},"text":"Eustace's squares have shrunk to R4C2 – in Charlie's column, so out – and R7C6: <b>Eustace is at R7C6.</b> Charlie was in row 1, so the person exactly two rows south of him, in row 3, was a woman. Only Frederick (R3C4) and Gillian (R3C8) can still be in row 3, and Frederick is a man, so the woman is Gillian and she is in row 3; her other square R2C8 drops: <b>Gillian is at R3C8.</b>"},{"place":["F"],"cand":{"B":[[4,5]],"V":[[4,7],[8,7]]},"text":"Row 3 is Gillian's now, so Frederick loses R3C4: <b>Frederick is at R2C4.</b> Eustace was right beside an area where nobody was. His square R7C6 touches the Fiction Room (R6C6), the Garden (R7C5) and his own Back Room (R7C7, R8C6). Alison is certainly in the Fiction Room, so it is not empty; the only area that can be empty is the Garden. Nobody was in the Garden – its squares are crossed out, and Ben cannot be at R8C5."},{"place":["B","V"],"cand":{},"text":"Ben is left with R4C5 and R8C5, and R8C5 is in the empty Garden: <b>Ben is at R4C5.</b> Vicky has R4C7 and R8C7, and row 4 is Ben's, so R4C7 is out: <b>Vicky is at R8C7</b> – in the Back Room, where Eustace is the only other person."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Eustace was alone with Vicky in the Back Room – the map collector had sold the shop \"antique\" county maps, and Vicky, who came in with a box of old county maps of her own, had just recognised his maps as forgeries. <b>Eustace is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["stool","armchair","sofa","rockinghorse","beanbag","bench"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-19"},"score":9.1331}