Ivo Bexley

A former clerk in a commercial claims office, Ivo learned to reconstruct disputes from ledgers, delivery slips and witness contradictions. A client asks him to prove a dockhand guilty before the inquiry has begun; Ivo suspects the real trail leads into a chartered shipping company.

A former clerk in a commercial claims office, Ivo learned to reconstruct disputes from ledgers, delivery slips and witness contradictions. He now finds missing people, checks inheritance claims and investigates staged thefts for those who can pay. He refuses to certify a suspicion as fact, a principle that has already cost him two wealthy patrons.

Ivo is polite, watchful, controlled, dryly humorous and impatient with melodrama. A client asks him to prove a dockhand guilty before the inquiry has begun; Ivo suspects the real trail leads into a chartered shipping company.

Ivo can connect Kit Dallow’s missing shipment with forged protection receipts if the party obtains an original bill of lading.

Connections: Rowan Keel (reluctant contact), Clara Morrow (source exchange), Kit Dallow (possible witness).

In person

28. Medium-height, spare, olive complexion, short dark-brown waves, amber eyes, deep vertical line between brows and a tiny white scar below the chin; normally wears a modest dark suit rather than a theatrical disguise.