Case 0005 · October 20, 2026
The Last Samba in Santa Teresa
A hillside house above Rio. A song with two authors. One glass of passion-fruit juice.
The briefing
Raimundo Tavares wrote sambas for forty years from a blue-shuttered house on the hills of Santa Teresa, high above Rio de Janeiro. Everyone who knew him knew one thing: he could not touch peanuts.
The rest of the briefing is waiting in the case file.
The victim
Raimundo Tavares, age 71Samba composerRaimundo wrote the winning parade samba for his neighbourhood school three times. He never wrote a song without a glass of cold passion-fruit juice beside him, and he kept every lyric he ever wrote in old school notebooks stacked on the piano.
The suspects
Beatriz TavaresSinger · Daughter
Thiago MoreiraSamba school president · Old friend
Conceição RibeiroHousekeeper for twenty years
Felipe AndradeComposer · Protégé
How to play this case
- DifficultyGentle (2/5)
- The suspects4
- TimeAbout ten minutes
4 suspects and 12 pieces of evidence wait in the file. Sweep your flashlight across the scene, listen to every voiced statement and pin what doesn't add up. You have three accusations to name the killer, the method and the motive; after that, the morning paper tells the whole story.
Can you name the killer, the method and the motive?
No spoilers here: the statements, the evidence and the solution stay inside the case file.