It's About Time

"Time for Death."

By Maitland Scott (1909-45; Wikipedia HERE and the SFE HERE).

First appearance: Secret Agent X, April 1938.

Short short short story (3 pages).

Online at The Pulpgen Archive (HERE).

   "The magazine article also told that Judge Wilson was a man of well-regulated, methodical habits . . ."

SOME perfect crimes are simplicity itself—maybe too simple . . .

Main characters:

~ Fritz Hyler, Judge Wilson, and the manservant.

Typo: "picture snowed".

Reference:

- "the eight-day clock" (HERE; Antique and Vintage Mechanical Clocks).

Resources:

- Robert Thomas Maitland Scott and Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott, father and son, confusingly went by the same nom de plume, regardless of who actually did the writing, some of which included the character of The Spider (HERE). Here are the Maitland Scott stories available on The Pulpgen Archive:

  ~ "Satan's Bargain" (HERE)

  ~ "Doom Mountain" (HERE)

  ~ "Time for Death" (above)

  ~ "Last Chance Acre" (HERE).

- Several other stories involving clocks include Cyril Plunkett's "Twenty Clocks for Death" (HERE), Robert Arthur's "Time Will Tell" (HERE), and another story with the same title (HERE; story 7).

The bottom line:

Unless otherwise noted, all bibliographical data are derived from The FictionMags Index created by William G. Contento & edited by Phil Stephensen-Payne.

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