The Distant Clue

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The Distant Clue

The ledger lay open on the desk, its pages a stark, aggressive white that seemed to suck the light from the room. Elias Thorne held the book in his hands, the leather binding cool and damp against his palms, the smell of wet earth rising from the ink that had just begun to bleed onto the paper. He was fifty-two years old, a senior archivist at the State Bureau, and for twenty years he had...

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