Bristol, 1887. Board of Trade inspector Sarah Croft arrives to investigate an impossible duplicate countersign in the harbour ledgers. She already knows how it was made: three nights earlier, she traced Clerk Elias Thorne's signature herself to force an audit of Captain Silas Vane's protected cargo route—the route named in her father's final private dossier. The forgery opens the books, but it also endangers an innocent clerk and gives Harbour Master William Graves grounds to bury every discovery as tainted. Across eight episodes, Sarah investigates the crime she committed, assembles a lawful case from evidence independent of it, and decides whether exposing the ring requires exposing herself.

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Sarah presents two ledgers bearing the same Thorne flourish, one of which she traced by pressure through prepared paper.

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Bristol Harbour, 1887

Bristol Harbour, 1887: cargo legitimacy is made from ink, witness, weight, and institutional reputation. Sarah Croft has already violated that system to force it to examine itself. The evidence must remain period-grounded—pressure marks, iron-gall and carbon inks, watermarks, binding order, custody, tide tables, and sworn testimony; no ultraviolet lamps or modern forensic shortcuts exist.
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  • Sarah Croft

    Board of Trade inspector

    Board of Trade inspector Sarah Croft is composed, exacting, and already preparing for questions nobody has asked. Her father’s brass divider remains her preferred tool for testing margins and distances.

  • Elias Thorne

    Chief harbour clerk

    Chief harbour clerk Elias Thorne is courteous until someone mistakes precision for timidity. He studies his own signature as carefully as the port records entrusted to him.

  • Captain Silas Vane

    Master of the Sea Serpent

    Captain Silas Vane offers hospitality with a seafarer’s ease and a host’s careful control of the room. A ledger bolted beneath his chart desk is never outside his reach.

  • Arthur Priestly

    Junior Customs clerk

    Junior customs clerk Arthur Priestly is earnest without being credulous. He records the question even after accepting an answer, and keeps his own chronology against the harbour clock.

  • William Graves

    Bristol harbour master

    Harbour master William Graves performs patience in public while watching every document and every reaction. He understands that a record’s power depends as much on its reader as on its contents.

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