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Case 31: The Spike
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 10 years. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Scriven, Enoch. 47. Clerk in the county contracts office at city hall, the Marble Mile, twenty-two years. Nadia Wren's source on a story her paper spiked a week before he died. He was on leave in Ashport, in a room by the week on the Tidewall. His sister reported him missing here on a Tuesday night, ten years ago. Found the next morning in the harbor beside the ferry landing at the foot of Kedge Street, by the master of the first boat. The Ashport coroner's office: drowned. Window 9:00 PM Monday to 3:00 AM Tuesday. Ashport called it an accident: a stranger, a wet night, drink. The Coldmere police closed their file on Ashport's finding, and nobody in either city asked again. This year Wren gave us her notebook from that January. His sister gave us his phone, and the lab has opened it. Ashport records asked his landlady and the landing's night man again. Mrs. Unsworth's house rule is in the Manifest file, Ashport. Wren's notes stand. Four names. -V
- Case
- 31: The Spike
- Tier
- case
- Cold for
- 10 years
- City
- Coldmere
- District
- The Marble Mile
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