The Pale Season
St. Clair Medical Center, Caldmere
The case file on Thomas Greer sits three inches thick and smells of a decade of neglect. Greer was forty-four when they found him — slumped in a supply closet on St. Clair's third floor, the cardiac unit, at 2:17 in the morning on the ninth of November, 2015. The official cause of death, issued forty-eight hours later, was acute myocardial infarction. Greer had a history of hypertension, a…
Everyone has something to hide.
Confronted Greer privately over budget irregularities eighteen months before the death. Was passed over for a directorship immediately after. Claims he was home asleep. His alibi — his wife's confirmation — dissolved with his marriage.
Documented Greer's fraud in a personal log. Confronted him six weeks before his death. Lost her unit when he scattered her colleagues. Was on duty the night he died. The room log confirms a patient in 318 — not that Aggie was there.
On duty the night Greer died. Logged a third-floor patrol at 1:55 a.m. His personal notebook records the supply closet light on and door ajar at 2:04 — thirteen minutes before Greer was found. He reported nothing. He explains nothing satisfactorily.
Served Greer his last meal. The reservation was made under a false name. Moreau left his kitchen twice during service that night. His sous chef's account contradicts his own. His connection to the victim's financial dealings remains unexplained.
Held Calder's report for eleven days before publishing. Says she was fact-checking. Her reporter believes she was calling someone. The Gazette's phone records from those eleven days have not been subpoenaed — yet.
Can you name the culprit?
Read the case file, interrogate the suspects, and make your accusation — five guesses to crack it. The deduction board and the solution are for detectives only.
Caldmere, Maine.
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