Daily Casefile · Audit
Find the line that lies.
A document sits on the desk. Six numbered lines. Four verified background records to cross-check against. Five of the lines square. One does not. Find the line, and the record that exposes it. One submission.
Audit #006 · The Thornfield Estate Inventory
1923, rural Yorkshire, England. The probate court has commissioned an audit of the estate inventory filed following the death of Sir Edmund Thornfield.
Sir Edmund Thornfield died on 14 March 1923, leaving a sizeable country estate at Wharton Grange. His solicitor, Reginald Holt, has filed a formal inventory of moveable property for probate purposes, listing six categories of assets with their appraised values. A rival claimant to the estate, a distant cousin named Arthur Penwick, has alleged that at least one line of the inventory is misstated. The probate registrar has asked you to compare Holt's inventory against four independent records and identify any line that cannot be reconciled with those records.