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Case File · Forensic · No. 044
Daily Casefile · Forensic
The Vesper Organ Codex
≈ 4 min
At St. Hallard's Concert Hall, a valuable handwritten organ codex — a nineteenth-century performance manuscript attributed to composer Edvard Holt — has been found to be a forgery. The original has been replaced with a fabricated copy, and archivist Seren Wolfe suspects the substitution was carried out in stages over several days. You have six events and four forensic clues. Reconstruct the exact chronological order in which the forgery was planned, executed, and discovered.
The scene
St. Hallard's Concert Hall organ loft and verger's vestry, present day
The events
- Forger applies a false provenance stamp to the replica
- Wolfe notices discrepancies and alerts the conservator
- Wolfe inspects the codex and declares it genuine
- Replica placed in the archive drawer, original removed
- Forger traces the codex onto aged laid paper
- Forger posts the original codex to an address in Ghent
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