Last Wave
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 178 of 200.
Dijon, Wednesday, September 17, 1890, 7 pm. In the stationmaster's office, the lamp lights a photograph: a man almost six and a half feet tall, in a gray cape, beside a wooden camera with a single lens.
He is Évariste Coudray, 49, a French inventor settled in England, whose camera makes photographs move. Yesterday, Tuesday, he was to take the 2:42 pm train to Paris, file the patent for the projector in London on Monday the 22nd, and sail from Liverpool on the 24th to show the invention in New York.
The friends waiting for him in Paris never saw him step off the train. At 11:30 pm, their telegram reached his brother's house in Dijon. Neither the inventor nor the leather case with the films and drawings has turned up at any station.
Three people were with him in his last hours in Dijon. One of them knows why he never reached Paris.
Stationmaster's office in Dijon, 1890, with a ledger and a photograph of a tall man.
Suspects
Prosper CoudrayThe inventor's older brother, an architect in Dijon, 53
Baptiste RouvièreThe inventor's mechanic and builder of the camera, 38
Séverine PothierTelegraphisttelegraphist Person who sends and receives messages by telegraph, tapping them out in electrical signals. at Dijon station, 27
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