Series The Puzzle of the Sunken Compass

The characters and events in this story are entirely fictitious. They do not resemble anyone, and any resemblance to any region or real-life persons is purely coincidental. Episode 1: The Dry Dock Salvage expert Jonah Reed investigates the drainage of…

Episode 2: The Bottom of the Basin Searching the muddy floor of the drained dry dock during low tide, Jonah discovers heavy bronze ballast plates inscribed with naval artillery coordinates. The plates had been discarded near the ship’s propeller shafts,…

Episode 3: The Missing Needle Returning to the imperial dry dock for a detailed inspection of the binnacle stand, Jonah confirmed the core crisis of the investigation. The lodestone needle from the compass is missing, removing the only magnetic key…

Episode 4: The Shipwright’s Tale Tracking down an aging shipwright who had built the imperial warship’s binnacle decades ago, Jonah sought advice on how to bypass the missing lodestone needle’s security lock. The shipwright, an 80-year-old master craftsman living in…

Episode 5: Pointing North Diving into the trench cave, Jonah spots the glowing luminous tip of the magnetic needle wedged into a sunken hatchway mechanism. Captain Vance was working furiously inside the air pocket of the cave, attempting to force…