"John Morressy - When Bertie Met Mary" - читать интересную книгу автора (Morressy John)

These events took place five years ago next Thursday. Neither man nor machine has been seen since that
night, and no explanation for the Time Traveler's disappearance has ever been forthcoming. I alone, of all
men, know the answer to the enigma.
But one mystery remains unsolved. I was familiar with his library, and a careful check of the shelves
enabled me to identify two of the three volumes he had chosen to take with him on his journey: Miss
Lambert's excellent Hand-book of Needlework and Nollet's account, in the Memoires of the French
Academy, of his investigation into the force of electricity, along with unpublished reports on the same
phenomenon, which the Time Traveler had had bound together.
Of the third volume I am uncertain. It might have been Colonel Ponsonby's thrilling Headhunting in the
South Pacific or Baedeker's Guide to Geneva. Glooffinger's Principles of Bookbinding (1898 edition,
revised and illustrated, with the introduction by Sklitts- Foosbacker, foreword by Hornby, preface by
McGlibb, and the embarrassing typographical error on page 763) is another possibility. Or was it
Loudbottom's Complete Rhyming Dictionary? The title remains a mystery.
What purpose lay behind the Time Traveler's selection, it is impossible to say. I fear the worst. And only
time will tell.