Series The Riddle of the Silver Quill

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 Missing Ink Scrivener Guild Master Leonard Grey discovers that his…

Episode 2: Debts and Documents Examining the apprentice’s work desk in the back of the chamber, Leonard finds that several royal land deeds from the preceding century have been secretly rewritten and restamped. The forged documents transferred ownership of prime…

Episode 3: Scribes in the Shadows Before Leonard could reach the high court, a tip from an informant led him to a smoke-filled tavern in the shadowy warehouse district on the edge of the capital. Leonard corners a junior apprentice…

Episode 4: Tracing the Signature Leonard analyzes the subtle pressure variations in forged land grants currently pending approval before the high court. Using an electrostatic detection apparatus, he mapped the microscopic indentations left on the parchment by the silver quill’s…

Episode 5: Confession in Cursive Leonard catches the forger mid-alteration inside an abandoned scriptorium on the outskirts of the capital. Pushing open the heavy oaken doors of the drafty scriptorium, he found Master Malachi hunched over a drafting desk by…