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The potted palm (R4C3) was in Armande’s column, so she is in column 3, and somebody in her area was beside the piano. Only R1C3 and R1C5 are beside the piano (R2C4 holds the microphone), both on the Stage – so Armande was on the Stage as well, at R1C3 or R2C3. The person beside the piano cannot share her column, so R1C5 is occupied; that takes row 1, and <b>Armande is at R2C3</b>. Who was at R1C5? By the general rule only members of the band were on the Stage: Baptiste, Clarence or Dominique. Clarence was in a corner of his area, and R1C5 is not a corner (the Stage continues on both sides of it); Dominique was beside a pillar, and both pillars are on the Dance Floor. So <b>Baptiste is at R1C5</b>. The armchair (R2C9) puts Francine in column 9; with row 2 Armande’s and column 9 Francine’s, Valéry is at R3C7 or R4C8."},{"place":["G"],"cand":{"D":[[6,6],[8,4]],"E":[[6,6],[8,4]],"V":[[4,8]],"F":[[3,9],[4,9],[9,9]],"C":[[5,2],[9,1]],"H":[[9,1],[9,2]]},"text":"Dominique and Edmond were both beside a pillar: R5C5, R6C4, R6C6, R7C3, R7C5 or R8C4. Columns 3 and 5 are taken, which leaves R6C4, R6C6 and R8C4 – and whoever took R6C4 would block both other squares (row 6 and column 4). So Dominique and Edmond are at R6C6 and R8C4 in some order: rows 6 and 8 and columns 4 and 6 are theirs. Germain was beside a table; outside Francine’s column 9 and rows 6 and 8 that leaves R5C8 and R7C7. He and Valéry (R3C7 or R4C8) are both confined to columns 7 and 8, so those two columns are theirs. Exactly one row north of Germain was a man – which men can be in row 4? Baptiste is in row 1, Edmond in row 6 or 8, and Clarence was in a corner of his area: the free corner squares of row 4 are R4C7, R4C8 and R4C9, in columns 7, 8 and 9, which belong to Germain, Valéry and Francine. That leaves only Valéry, at R4C8 – in column 8, so Germain cannot be at R5C8, right below him. The man north of Germain is therefore in row 6: <b>Germain is at R7C7</b>, sitting on a sofa beside the table at R7C8."},{"place":["E","D"],"cand":{"V":[[4,8]],"F":[[3,9],[4,9],[9,9]],"C":[[5,2],[9,1]],"H":[[9,1],[9,2]]},"text":"The person in row 6, exactly one row north of Germain, is a man. Row 6 belongs to Dominique or Edmond, at R6C6, so <b>Edmond is at R6C6</b>, beside the pillar at R6C5, and <b>Dominique is at R8C4</b>, beside the pillar at R7C4. Rows 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8 and columns 3 to 7 are now taken. Column 8 is left to Valéry and column 9 is Francine’s, so Clarence and Huguette must share columns 1 and 2."},{"place":["C","H"],"cand":{"V":[[4,8]],"F":[[3,9],[4,9]]},"text":"Clarence and Huguette are in columns 1 and 2, and the free rows are 3, 4, 5 and 9. In rows 3 to 5 every square of columns 1 and 2 belongs to the Bar, and Huguette was not in the Bar: she is in row 9, in the Foyer. Clarence is then in the Bar, at R3C2, R4C1, R4C2 or R5C2 (R3C1 and R5C1 hold the bar counters). He was in a corner of his area, and of these squares only R5C2 is a corner of the Bar, with the Dance Floor to its east and south. So <b>Clarence is at R5C2</b>, sitting on a bar stool. Column 2 is his, so <b>Huguette is at R9C1</b>."},{"place":["V","F"],"text":"Valéry was at R3C7 or R4C8, and column 7 is Germain’s: <b>Valéry is at R4C8</b>. Only row 3 is free now, and Francine is in column 9: <b>Francine is at R3C9</b> – in the Office. Everybody else is outside the Office: Armande and Baptiste on the Stage, Clarence in the Bar, Dominique and Edmond on the Dance Floor, Germain in the Booths and Huguette in the Foyer. So the only person who can be alone with Valéry in the Office is Francine."},{"final":true,"text":"Case closed: Valéry was alone in the Office with the film actress. <b>Francine is the murderer!</b>"}],"solver":{"rules":[{"type":"role_only","areas":["Stage"],"roles":["band"]}],"occupiable":["armchair","sofa","stool"]},"verification":{"tool":"tools/murdoku_solver.py","unique":true,"guessFree":true,"checked":"2026-09-29"}}