The Carbon Paper Trail
A Vintage Typewriter Repair Mystery

About this book:

Dive into the smoky, ink‑stained world of *Lane’s Mechanicals*, where the clack of typebars hides secrets older than the town itself. When Marion Lane, a skilled typewriter restorer, is handed a stubborn Underwood No. 5 from the Blackwood Historical Society, she discovers a brittle strip of carbon paper tucked inside the platen—a typed confession that points to a long‑buried crime involving the town’s founding family.

Each chapter peels back another layer of mechanical mystery: from the stuttering keystrokes that betray a sabotaged escapement wheel to the ghost letters that echo a forgotten ledger. As Marion tightens screws and tunes springs, she also tightens the net around a conspiracy that ties the Vance iron foundry, a missing engineer, and a river that never gave up its dead.

*The Carbon Paper Trail* is a love letter to the tactile romance of vintage machines and a gripping whodunit that proves the past never really stays pressed flat—it waits, inked and ready, for the right touch to reveal its truth. If you love puzzles that click into place as surely as a typebar striking the page, this is the novel you’ve been waiting to type.