Afterword to “Hand in Glove”

We turn now to one of early Califa’s most infamous crimes. The Califa Squeeze, or as it later became known, The Hand of Gory, kept the city on edge for several months before its capture by Detective Anibal Wilkins y Aguille. The author of this piece clearly consulted Detective Wilkins’s autobiography, for the details here match up almost perfectly with his own account, although Detective Wilkins is more modest in his own description and gives his partner, Detective Aurelia Etreyo, more credit than she probably deserves.[1]

The Doctors Ehle & Elsinore were responsible for the invention of the Azimuth Recombinator and the Galvanic Explicator, technology which helped bring Califa into the modern era. (In fact, it was during testing of the Azimuth Recombinator that the line between the Waking World and Elsewhere was severed.) Readers will be pleased to know that Nutter Norm died in a rest home at Niguel Playa, at the age of 106. Detective Etreyo left the Califa Police force four years after this case to found a private security company in Ticonderoga. Today, Zopilotes Ltd., still controlled by the Etreyo family, is the largest private security company in the world, with offices in fifteen countries.

[1]  See Aguille y Wilkins.