Maureen started to speak and stopped. “Oh!” she gasped. “What?”
“The time machine. It must still be there—somewhere—mustn’t it? Shouldn’t you—”
Fergus laughed, and not at comedy. “That’s the payoff of perfection on this opus. I gather Partridge and his sister didn’t love each other too dearly. You know what her first reaction was to the news of his death? After one official tear and one official sob, she went and smashed the hell out of his workshop.”
On a workshop floor lay twisted, shattered coils and busbars. In the morgue lay a plump bald body with a broken neck. These remained of the Great Harrison Partridge.
The Editors
Douglas G. Greene is by profession a university teacher and by avocation a dilettante. He graduated from the University of South Florida in 1966, and after obtaining the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago he joined the faculty of Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1971. Since 1983, he has been Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Humanities. He is author and/or editor of eight books, including two posthumous collections of stories and plays by John Dickson Carr: THE DOOR TO DOOM (1980) and THE DEAD SLEEP LIGHTLY (1983). He is married with two children.
Robert C. S. Adey has been collecting things since he could walk and books since he could read. He has amassed a large book collection which includes nearly all those volumes featured in his bibliography, LOCKED ROOM MURDERS and OTHER IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES (1979). He is married, with two dogs, and when not busy adding to his collection, is employed as a tax surveyor in Worcestershire in Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise.
Greene and Adey are frequent contributors to various books and magazines, including The Armchair Detective, The Poisoned Pen, The Mystery Fancier, and CADS: Crime and Detective Stories.
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