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Case file · 066 · aired 2026-11-05

Missing, Presumed Living

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 067

The ledger · spoilers insideClean win

A frightened daughter hired the detective to find the father she was sure the harbor had taken, and he worked the room the man left, the city's records, and a northbound coach lead until the case inverted on him — the man wasn't drowned, only gone. He found him living up the coast, a clean disappearance the city had never figured how to put a price on, a man who had paid his rent ahead, left owing nothing, and walked out of his own life without asking anyone's permission. The detective closed it a win and left the daughter holding the one thing the case couldn't give her back — the question of what she was owed by a man who didn't believe he owed her.

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Who's in it6

Flynn · The Detective · Dale · Adell Prewitt · Emmett Halloran · Nora Halloran

The scenes8
01Eight Days Gone Detective office · Dread
02Paid Through October Dockside boarding house · Melancholy
03Nobody Off the Tide Chronicle morgue · Wry
04Every Line of It Bureau of records · Measured
05Postmark Going North Coast rail platform · Restless
06Nobody's Memory Cannery town wharf · Wistful
07Alive, and Gone Rooming house parlor · Bittersweet
08Who Carries the Freight Detective office · Quiet
On the corkboard3

New in Case 048. The revival's advance man went to a cell but the going rate stayed on record. Case 049 confirmed the rate sticks and found an institutional home: the Chronicle runs a paid redemption desk — absolution by the column-inch, now institutionalized…

New in Case 066. Nora Halloran has her father's address up the coast; Emmett asked the detective to let him stay gone the honest way, but the detective gave her the truth and the card instead. Whether she goes north and what a daughter does with a father who…

Clean win (7th after 028/033/038/042/048/055/059). A frightened daughter named Nora Halloran hired the detective to find her father she was sure the harbor had taken; he worked the room Emmett left, the morgue lists, the city records, and a northbound coach…

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