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The altar was in Alasdair’s column, so column 8 is his and Vaila is not at R2C8: row 1 is hers. Finlay was the only one beside the carpet (R4C5), and somebody else in his area – the Great Hall – was beside a suit of armour. In the Great Hall only three squares lie beside a suit of armour: R2C3 (beside the one at R2C2), R4C6 and R5C5 (beside the one at R5C6); the last two are beside the carpet as well, and nobody but Finlay was beside it. So somebody is at R2C3. Who? Not Alasdair (column 8) or Hughie (column 1), not Brodie or Christabel (the two candelabras are in the Chapel and the Crypt), not Eilidh (the squares beside the four-poster bed lie in the Tower Room, so that is her area), not Vaila, and not Grizel: R2C3 is not a corner of the Great Hall. <b>Davina is at R2C3</b>. Now the Tower Room: its squares lie in columns 1, 2 and 3; column 3 is Davina’s and column 1 Hughie’s, so Eilidh is in column 2, and anybody else in the Tower Room would have to be in column 1 – that can only be Hughie. Somebody else in Eilidh’s area was beside the four-poster bed, at R5C2 or R6C1, and R5C2 is in her column: <b>Hughie is at R6C1</b>."},{"place":["G","E"],"cand":{"A":[[3,8],[4,8],[5,8],[7,8]],"B":[[7,5],[7,6]],"C":[[3,9],[7,7]],"F":[[3,5],[4,6],[5,5]],"V":[[1,7],[1,9]]},"text":"Christabel was beside a candelabra. Of the squares beside the two candelabras (R2C9 and R6C7), R1C9 lies in Vaila’s row, R2C8 in Davina’s, R6C6 and R6C8 in Hughie’s: she is at R3C9 or R7C7. Vaila is at R1C7 or R1C9 – so the two of them use up columns 7 and 9 between them (one takes column 7, the other column 9), and nobody else can be in those columns. Grizel was in a corner of her area; outside the taken rows (1, 2, 6) and columns (1, 2, 3, 8) only four corners are left: R4C9, R5C7, R9C4 and R9C9 – and three of them are in column 7 or 9. <b>Grizel is at R9C4</b>, in a corner of the Crypt. Exactly one row north of her was a member of the castle household: in row 8 that can only be Eilidh (Finlay is beside the carpet, in rows 3–5, and Hughie in row 6): <b>Eilidh is at R8C2</b>. Brodie had a candelabra in his area: his Chapel squares R3C9 and R4C9 are in column 9, so he is in the Crypt – and with rows 6, 8 and 9 and columns 3, 7, 8 and 9 taken (R7C4 is a sarcophagus), only R7C5 and R7C6 remain for him."},{"place":["C","V"],"cand":{"A":[[4,8],[5,8]],"B":[[7,5],[7,6]],"F":[[4,6],[5,5]]},"text":"Both of Brodie’s squares are in row 7, so row 7 is his, and Christabel cannot be at R7C7: <b>Christabel is at R3C9</b>, in the Chapel. Column 9 is hers, so <b>Vaila is at R1C7</b>. The Chapel holds exactly two people – Vaila and the murderer – and Christabel is the second one. So the only person who can have been alone with Vaila in the Chapel is Christabel: <b>Christabel is the murderer</b>, and nobody else may enter the Chapel."},{"place":["A"],"cand":{"B":[[7,5],[7,6]],"F":[[5,5]]},"text":"Alasdair is left with R4C8 in the Great Hall and R5C8 in the Secret Passage (R3C8 is in Christabel’s row, R7C8 in Brodie’s). The Secret Passage has only two free squares, R5C7 and R5C8 (the curtain is on R5C9), and R5C7 is in Vaila’s column: in the Passage Alasdair would be alone. No area held exactly one person – <b>Alasdair is at R4C8</b>, in the Great Hall with Davina and Finlay."},{"place":["F","B"],"text":"Finlay was the only one beside the carpet: of his squares, R3C5 is in Christabel’s row, R4C4 in Grizel’s column and R4C6 in Alasdair’s row: <b>Finlay is at R5C5</b>, beside the carpet and the suit of armour at R5C6 – and Davina at R2C3 is the other person in his area beside a suit of armour. Column 5 is his, so <b>Brodie is at R7C6</b>, in the Crypt with Grizel. Everybody is placed."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Vaila was alone in the Chapel with the team’s camerawoman. <b>Christabel is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[{"type":"no_area_count","n":1}],"occupiable":["armchair","bed","bench","carpet"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-10-05"}}