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Special Archive Edition · Case EC-045

The Clockmaker's Visitor

A clockmaker claimed a stranger had asked him to repair a watch that had stopped twenty years earlier.

An elderly clockmaker told police that a tall stranger brought him a silver watch bearing a date from 1887. The stranger asked that it be repaired before midnight and left without giving a name. When the clockmaker opened the case, he found a tiny photograph of a man who had died twenty years before. The visitor never returned.

The Gaslight Chronicle · Archive Copy · The Edmund Cryer Journals