Observed arrival · 2026-10-22
The Small Hours: Crime stories as case files
A reading app for iPhone, iPad, and Android that presents crime stories with chapter-aware maps, timelines, character lists, evidence, and audio.
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- For
- Readers of serialized, spoiler-sensitive crime fiction
- Worth noticing
- The demo labels evidence as established, alleged, or theory, and withholds later chapters from the map and timeline.
Field notes
The visible sample follows “The Last Service,” an eight-chapter case set around a 1966 valley and dam project. Its timeline preserves missing stretches as well as dated events, while the evidence view distinguishes established material from accounts and theories. The page also describes adjustable story text, chapter recaps, and audio, and demonstrates how later details remain unavailable until the reader progresses.
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