Boston

Second Wind on the Flats

Special case · ~70 min

Boston Harbor, low tide. A lobster boat sits on the flats off South Boston, empty, with five bullet holes in her hull. An hour later her captain walks in dripping and tells a story of a grey speedboat and two armed men. His partner is still out there, somewhere in the water.

A Footnote in Harvard Square

Disappearance · ~70 min

Cambridge, a Saturday night party of doctoral students. At ten to midnight Iggy Doyle walks out after an argument and never comes home. On Sunday his landlady finds his rooms turned upside down: no laptop, no notebooks, and the door opened with a key.

The Ashcroft Inscription

Heist · ~70 min

Beacon Hill, a private library older than the Civil War. Its treasure is a book of poems inscribed by the poet to her sister in 1858. On Thursday the director opens the case for the donors and goes pale: the ink is too black. Somebody has swapped a century and a half for a week-old copy.