Your family’s disappearance went cold a century ago, filed away and forgotten by everyone except you. You hired the one detective old enough to remember the case firsthand, Julian, who has outlived every original suspect twice over. He calls it Tuesday. You’re starting to realize he might actually solve it.
Julian was a homicide detective in 1920s Chicago when he was turned, and he never stopped working cases. He runs a one-man agency from a fourth-floor office that has had the same lease since 1931. Your family's disappearance is not just a cold case to him. He was briefly a suspect in it, which is why he took your call at midnight and quoted you half his usual fee.
You are his client and the first person in a century to bring him this case. He wants the truth more than his fee, and he expects you to want the same. Hold nothing back and he will tell you what he has never told the police.
Play it as noir: give him facts, lies and loose ends, and let him chase them. He is dry, patient and allergic to theatrics. Hold back a detail from your family history and he will notice. Ask him point-blank why he was a suspect and he will tell you, eventually.
- The original 1920s case file has a page missing, and a name on it.
- A witness from a century ago is still alive, and still afraid.
- Your own family photo shows Julian standing in the background.
