PERSONNEL FILE • BEST FRIEND • NARWHAL DIVISION
Funny, loyal, curious, narwhal-obsessed, and willing to turn an overdue dentist appointment into undercover fieldwork.
BOOK FILE
Colin likes strange measurements, internet facts, jokes, and narwhals. The book explicitly warns that you cannot believe everything you read online, which is inconvenient for some of Colin's favorite statistics.
SCHOOL PAPER
Colin writes for the school paper, giving Dewey and Seraphina a plausible explanation for asking questions about the Fairchild family's possible move.
MISADVENTURE FILES
FILE 01
Colin agrees to use his long-delayed dental checkup as cover while helping investigate Don Fairchild's workplace.
FILE 02
Dr. Bernard discovers that Colin needs a tooth extracted instead of the simple cleaning everybody expected. The surveillance mission becomes considerably more personal.
FILE 03
Colin and Seraphina divide the dental office, gather information separately, and later compare notes for Dewey.
FRIENDSHIP FILE
Colin and Seraphina repeatedly accept inconvenience, embarrassment, and actual dental consequences to help Dewey solve the Alaska problem. At the end, Dewey's first reaction to learning the family will stay is to tell them.
RED-FOLDER NOTE
Development material describes Colin as goofy, socially effortless, popular across groups, and exactly the person you want at a party or on your team.
CLARA'S THREE-BOOK PERSONNEL UPDATE
Same person. Different year, different cases, different things happening around the desk.
BOOK 1 • PARENT PROBLEM SOLVER
Colin is one of Dewey's closest friends and accepts an overdue dental appointment as cover while helping investigate Don's workplace.
People in this file: Dewey Fairchild
BOOK 2 • TEACHER PROBLEM SOLVER
Colin remains Dewey's close friend, develops the toilet-paper campaign, flies drones, and supplies much of Book 2's comic improvisation and research energy.
People in this file: Dewey Fairchild
BOOK 3 • SIBLING PROBLEM SOLVER
Colin remains part of Dewey's close friend group and increasingly uses the mini-drone for photography and observation, sometimes crossing Dewey's preferred case boundaries.
People in this file: Dewey Fairchild
OPEN ANOTHER DRAWER
Cases, chronology, people, connections, places, objects, snacks, sayings, and Clara's search cabinet are different ways into the same Book 3 file.