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Every Confessd case, spoiler-free: where it happened, what happened and who is in the room. Who lied, you find out by playing.
The palenque's office, a smell of roasted agave and copal, the altar candles flickering in the courtyard.
Palenque Mendoza, Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, night of November 1, 11:20 pm. Don Aurelio Mendoza, 68, owner of the mezcal distillery, collapsed in front of the altar de muertos twenty minutes after the toast.
Ximena MendozaDon Aurelio's daughter and heir, 24
Eusebio RamírezMaster mezcal maker of the palenque, 62
Rogelio GarzaBusiness partner from Monterrey, 45
The news meeting room, fifth floor, overflowing ashtrays, the floor shaking with the presses.
Newsroom of the New York Sentinel, Park Row, Manhattan, September 23, 1952, 11:50 pm. The night watchman found Frank Delaney, investigative reporter, dead in the basement archive.
Loretta VanceStaff photographer, 29
Salvatore BrancatoPressroom foreman, 55
Warren AshbyEditor-in-chief of the Sentinel, 58
The riad's courtyard, a zellige tile fountain, orange trees in pots, mint tea cooling in the glasses.
Riad Dar Lalla Zineb, Marrakech medina, 5:40 am. At the first call to prayer, Othmane Alaoui, the owner of the riad, found the salon wall empty: the Sultan's Carpet, a 17th-century Saadian piece, was gone.
Driss BennaniAntiques dealer from the souk, 58
Othmane AlaouiOwner of the riad, 45
Béatrice MorelFrench collector, guest, 52
The back room of the underground bar, pink sandstone walls, a ceiling fan turning slowly.
Coober Pedy, South Australian desert, 10:10 pm. Gus Nowak, 61, an opal miner, was found dead at the bottom of the tunnel in his own claim, twenty metres underground.
Stavros PapadakisOwner of the underground bar, 62
Deirdre CallaghanGus's partner in the claim, 49
Raymond LeungOpal buyer from Hong Kong, 45
The theatre's rehearsal room, wooden barres, tall mirrors and the piano under a dust cloth.
Zarechny Theatre, Moscow, opening night of Giselle, 9:40 pm. At 7:52 pm, in the middle of the first act variation, prima ballerina Vera Sokolova rose onto pointe and fell. Right ankle fractured, taken to hospital. The performance was stopped.
Zlata OrlovaUnderstudy ballerina, 22
Arkady BelovCompany choreographer, 51
Galina MorozovaWardrobe seamstress, 58