The case

What’s this one about?

Rimeholt is a ski resort under the Pale Horns. One private evening, the season’s awards banquet fills Cantle House — mid-mountain, voucher-only, shut off from the slopes. Guests, lodge people, and house staff. No walk-ins.

By the time the speeches should have started, there’s been an unpleasantness. Zarina leaves you the list of everyone who could honestly have been inside. You eliminate your way to a short pool, then dig the records and files until one name still fits.

It’s a Pocket investigation: compact, sharp, built to finish without a weekend hostage situation.