The Detective Fedora Hat

'I gazed at the item inside the box, nestled in the middle upon a weightless black pillow. It was a detective fedora hat. Plain dark grey felt with a black band and a slightly turned up rim, it lay quietly preserved upon the pillow. I could not touch it.'

Charles Remus Blake resigned from his police detective job five years ago. But when his old detective partner dies, he receives her old hat.