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An Exhibit — Case 004

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Low Tide, Black Star, the fourth case from Daniel Grey — a railway noir about schedules, ghosts, and the fares you pay twice.

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NOW OPEN · 2026

CASE 004Crime novel83,000 WORDS
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Four cases. One drawer.

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CASE 001Crime novel87,000 WORDS

The Cold Harbour

A stranger washes up under the piers of Harlowe with the harbour master’s name stitched inside his coat.

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CASE 002Crime novel74,000 WORDS

Rain Like Static

A radio host starts receiving calls from a frequency that went dark the year the town burned.

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CASE 003Crime novel91,000 WORDS

The Undertow

Three divers. One wreck. A ledger of who owed whom, printed on salvaged paper and still legible.

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CASE 004Crime novel83,000 WORDS

Low Tide, Black Star

The last train out of the Cynosure Line runs on schedule — and only one man knows why it never reaches the end.

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About the Author

Daniel Grey writes the town nobody wants to read about.

Grey spent twenty years in coastal towns doing honest work — harbours, rail, salvage — and took notes the whole way. The Overlook Review called the first case “unnervingly quiet,” which Grey treats as the highest compliment.

Books are written longhand, typed clean, published without a gatekeeper. DRM-free because the story is the product, not the leash.

Daniel Grey · Est. 2024

REV. 04 — SUBJECT FILE

RESIDENCE
Somewhere damp, near water
KNOWN FOR
Railway noir, harbour noir, the quiet horror of small ledgers
FIRST PRINT
Case 001 — The Cold Harbour, 2024
METHOD
Longhand on paper. Manual typewriter. Stubbornly dry copy.
ONE RULE
Never resolve the wrong mystery
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