CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgements

Prologue: Time Machine with a Trolley

1   All the Days of Her Death

2   Nightmare on West Princes Street

3   Pantomime Noir

4   Looking for Mr. Oscar

5   Discovering Miss Gilchrist

6   The Return of the Alien

7   The Granite Man of Peterhead

8   The Libelling of Dr. Charteris

9   Trench Warfare

10 Resetting the Record

11 The Fourth Guardian Angel

12 The Order of Release

13 The Day of Judgment

14 Codicil and Coda

15 If Not Slater – Who?

16 The Ladies of Lanark

17 The House that Jack Built

18 The Secrets of Lot 631

19 Retrenchment

20 Eighty Years On

21 The Mystery Solved?

22 In the Eye of Time

23 Odds and Endings

Bibliography

Index

Also by the Author

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