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Room, beside the dressmaker’s dummy (R1C3); R1C2 holds the mirror, so she is at R1C4 or R2C3. A spotlight was somewhere in Anouk’s row – the two spotlights are at R8C1 and R8C9, so she is in row 8. Bastien was on the Runway, and he was with Anouk, so Anouk was on the Runway too; its only square in row 8 is R8C5: <b>Anouk is at R8C5</b>. A camera was somewhere in Désirée’s column and a chair in Guillaume’s: both cameras (R9C4, R9C6) and all eight chairs are in columns 4 and 6, so these two columns belong to the two of them. Vivienne cannot be in column 4: <b>Vivienne is at R2C3</b>."},{"place":["F","B"],"cand":{"C":[[5,8],[6,8],[6,9],[7,8],[7,9]],"D":[[1,4],[1,6],[4,4],[4,6],[5,4],[5,6],[6,4],[6,6],[7,4],[7,6]],"E":[[4,1],[4,9],[5,1],[5,8],[5,9],[6,1],[6,8],[6,9],[7,1],[7,8],[7,9]],"G":[[1,6],[4,4],[4,6],[7,4],[7,6]],"H":[[4,9],[5,9]]},"text":"Fabrice was in the Photo Pit: R8C4 and R8C6 are in Anouk’s row, R9C3 is in Vivienne’s column and R9C5 in Anouk’s, so <b>Fabrice is at R9C7</b>. Bastien was on the Runway, and outside Anouk’s column 5 the Runway lies only in row 3: R3C3 is in Vivienne’s column, R3C4 and R3C6 are in the columns of Désirée and Guillaume, and R3C7 is in Fabrice’s. <b>Bastien is at R3C2</b>."},{"place":["D"],"cand":{"C":[[5,8],[6,8],[6,9],[7,8],[7,9]],"E":[[4,1],[5,1],[6,1],[7,1]],"G":[[4,6],[7,6]],"H":[[4,9],[5,9]]},"text":"Étienne was alone in his area – yet every area but the West Stand has somebody else in it: Vivienne is in the Dressing Room, Anouk and Bastien are on the Runway, Fabrice is in the Photo Pit, Coralie in the East Stand, and Hélène, with the champagne tower in her area, in the Lounge. So Étienne is in the West Stand, and nobody else is there. Guillaume was in a corner of his area, in column 4 or 6: R1C6, R4C4, R4C6, R7C4 or R7C6 (R8C4 and R8C6 are in Anouk’s row). R4C4 and R7C4 lie in the West Stand, so Guillaume is in column 6, and column 4 is Désirée’s. There R2C4 is in Vivienne’s row, R3C4 in Bastien’s, R8C4 in Anouk’s, and R4C4–R7C4 lie in the West Stand: <b>Désirée is at R1C4</b>, in the Dressing Room with Vivienne. Only the victim and the murderer were in the Dressing Room, so the person alone with Vivienne is Désirée: <b>Désirée is the murderer!</b>"},{"place":["C","G"],"cand":{"E":[[5,1],[6,1]],"H":[[5,9]]},"text":"Hélène is in the Lounge, and rows 1–3 are taken: she is at R4C9 or R5C9, so column 9 is hers. Exactly one row north of Anouk was a woman, so row 7 needs one. Anouk herself is in row 8, Vivienne in row 2, Désirée in row 1 and Hélène in row 4 or 5 – only Coralie is left. Of her East Stand squares in row 7, R7C6 is in Guillaume’s column, R7C7 in Fabrice’s and R7C9 in Hélène’s: <b>Coralie is at R7C8</b>. Guillaume’s corners left in column 6 are R4C6 and R7C6 (R1C6 is in Désirée’s row), and row 7 is Coralie’s: <b>Guillaume is at R4C6</b>, sitting on a chair."},{"place":["H","E"],"text":"Row 4 is Guillaume’s, so <b>Hélène is at R5C9</b>. Étienne takes the last free row and column: <b>Étienne is at R6C1</b>, alone in the West Stand. Everyone is placed."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Vivienne was alone in the Dressing Room with the head seamstress. <b>Désirée is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[],"occupiable":["chair","sofa"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-09-28"}}