The Faded Alibi

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The Faded Alibi

Edward Ashworth-Cross had been a clockmaker's apprentice for seventeen years when he learned that time could lie. The shop stood on Jermine Street, its window a narrow rectangle of brass and glass that caught the London afternoon like a held breath. Edward was forty-two, tall and narrow as a pendulum, with fingers that could set a balance wheel fine enough to hear a heartbeat through metal....

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