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Vilnius Alibi. Baltic Sea Crime Fiction Days. 09-12 11 2005
Detective Mystery
 
The festival Vilnius Alibi proudly presents a detective mystery on the Internet “In the Shadow of the Duke”
 
Players of the mystery get a detective task to solve. You have to run an investigation on how and why a murder was committed, and who’s the murderer. The winner of the mystery will be the player, who points out the circumstances of the crime and the murderer right most of the times.
 
The mystery begins on October 10th, when all the characters of the mystery are introduced, and it goes on until November 27th, when the solution of the mystery and the name of the murderer are revealed.
 
The player is allowed to make only one guess per week. The maximum amount of guesses during the whole game is seven.
 
In order to keep the mystery “In the Shadow of the Duke” exciting from the beginning to the very end, we have divided the story into 6 parts. From October 3rd we present them in a chronological order every Monday on the homepage of the festival www.vilniusalibi.lt. The last part, which is the sixth, is published on November 7th. After that the mystery is no longer updated and the players have three more weeks for their investigations.
 
The employees of the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania and the IT Company Gaumina are not allowed to take part in the mystery, neither are their family members and relatives.
 
All characters and companies are fictional. Any similarities to actual persons or companies are purely coincidental. Copyright (c) Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania 2005.
 
 
Prizes
 
The players have a possibility to win the main prize of the mystery and weekly prizes. The winners are informed personally; therefore the players must give correct personal data when making a guess.
 
The main prize
 
 Aiste Balzekiene, a 29-year-old sociologist from Kaunas is awarded the main prize of the mystery. That is a weekend for two in one of the Nordic capitals. Congratulations!
 
Teppo Heiskanen, the director of the Nordic Council of Ministers Office, hands over the prize.
 
 
The main prize of the mystery is a weekend for two in one of the following European capitals:
Copenhagen
(Denmark)
 
Stockholm
(Sweden)
 
Helsinki
(Finland)
 
 Oslo
(Norway)
 
 
These routes are meant for the residents of Lithuania. For those living abroad, the destination is Vilnius (Lithuania) with departure from one of the four Nordic capitals, mentioned above.
 
The winner of the main prize is announced on November 28th. In case there is more than one player, who guesses right most of the times, the winner is chosen by drawing lots.
 
Weekly prizes
 
In order to win a weekly prize, there’s no need to get it right, all the players of the week have a chance to win. Every week during the mystery we choose 3 players by chance, who win prizes of the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania (a T-shirt, playing cards and a compass).
 
Part 1
Rūta Astrauskaitė, a 25-year old medical assistant working for the Danish-owned pharmaceutical company “Danvaistas...
Part 2
As the body is examined, a matchbox with the name of the nightclub “Red Square”, situated in Oslo, is found in the pocket of the dead man...
Part 3
The technical examination of the body is completed. It becomes evident that the victim was killed on the construction site of the Palace, the body was found at 21.45...
Part 4
Pocienė and Janutėnas go over the facts of the case. The strongest hypothesis seems to be that the murder has something to do with Saulius.
Part 5
If the killer stole the Makarov from Juozas, the prints of the owner were probably wiped off. Juozas Račkaitis should identify the weapon...
Part 6
Jonas Ambrazaitis and Kęstas Gedvilas are being held at the police station. Paulius and Juozas Račkaitis are flown by helicopter from Klaipėda...
Solution
The body in the palace is that of Paulius Račkaitis, not Saulius Račkaitis. Vilma Gedvilaitė kills Paulius for revenge.