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Case File · Detective · No. 053
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Smoke Over the Evening Crossing
≈ 9 min
The MV Kingfisher's 8:00 PM crossing was halted mid-harbour when the galley's deep-fryer flared and tripped the boat's main breaker, stranding two hundred passengers in the dark for twenty minutes. The crew called it a routine grease flare-up, but the fryer's thermostat cut-out had been jammed with a folded strip of foil, and the burner run past its safe cycle. Purser Anita Cole wants to know who turned a mishap into a staged emergency — and why.
Subject
The Kingfisher's evening service
The ferry's flagship dinner crossing, its safety record, and the confidence of two hundred stranded passengers.
The suspects
- Rory Denholm — Galley cook
- Pilar Vance — Ship's engineer
- Neil Farraday — Cabin steward
- Bea Okoro — Contract safety inspector
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