Case file · 062 · aired 2026-10-22
Five-Ten Out of Calloway Bay
What the station's canon holds on this case.
Nothing here spoils a case you haven't heard — banked cases aren't on these pages at all. Horizon · Case 064
A frightened wife arrived near midnight with her husband's one-way stub and hired the detective to find Walter before the 5:10 interstate bus carried him out of Calloway Bay for good. Working the depot through the small hours, he discovered that the man already asking after Walter was collecting on a truth the detective himself had once buried, and Walter was only where the debt had landed. The 5:10 pulled out on schedule with Walter aboard; the detective was left at the empty bench, the board already flipping to the 6:40, the bill finally in and owing to no one but himself.
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Three carried names; 034 may add Eddie a fourth. 035-036 cost him his own exposure; 037 surfaced an old debt run the other way — his own name spent by someone else years back. 038-043 added nothing owed to him. 044 may add a fifth — the honest woman's…
New Case 062. Ada Kell hired the detective to bring her husband home and will receive a false trail report: the trail went dead at the depot. She will never know that what drove Walter out of Calloway Bay was an old truth the detective himself buried years…
New Case 062. Walter Kell is on the 5:10 interstate, one-way, with a cardboard grip and no intention to return. An innocent man carrying a debt he never signed, driven out of his whole ordinary life — home, wife, twelve years — by a buried truth that stopped…
New Case 062. A stranger came to Walter Kell's door on a Tuesday or Wednesday, spoke one name, and walked away — the name being the detective's own old buried truth, now loose and collecting. Who found the burial, how, and what they want from it is completely…
Alive, off the force since Case 013, his last move left in Flynn of the Chronicle's keeping. Returned in Case 043 to call in an old dock-beat loyalty the badge can no longer back; walked away believing a debt was settled clean, not knowing what the detective…
The_bill_comes_in (first in series). Ada Kell hired the detective near midnight to catch her husband Walter before the 5:10 interstate carried him out of Calloway Bay; Walter, an innocent ledger clerk, had been given a name and a debt by a stranger at his…