The Four Tents

The manor lawns · the summer fête · one person per marquee · Difficulty: Inspector 8 · 12×12

A Saturday in July, the summer fête on the lawns of the manor: cake stall, tombola, coconut shy, a brass band and four striped marquees pitched across the gardens. Vanity, the television presenter who had opened the fête, was found dead. The band played on.

Rules

1. In each of the four marquees there was exactly one person.

Statements

• Ariel (the vicar): He was in a corner of his area. A deckchair was somewhere in his column.
• Brittany (the schoolteacher): She was not with Jesse.
• Cody (the farmer’s son): The rose arch was somewhere in his column.
• Demi (the district nurse): Only one person was sitting on a bench, and she was alone with that person.
• Elton (the retired colonel): He was the only one beside a hedge. There was another man in his area who was in a marquee.
• Fox (the gamekeeper): He was the only one sitting in a deckchair.
• Gal (the florist): A flower bed was somewhere in her column. She was the only woman in any of the marquees.
• Huck (the baker): The flagpole was somewhere in his area.
• Isha (the potter): The rose arch was not in her area.
• Jesse (the cider maker): He was in a marquee.
• Kelsey (the beekeeper): There was a visitor in her area.
• Vanity (the television presenter): The victim. She was found on the Pond Walk, beside the pond – alone with the murderer.

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