forgery
Books
- The Ledger of Small Hours A Mystery of the Manchester Exchange · Liszt Think
February 1962, Manchester. In the fluorescent hush of the night-shift telephone exchange, supervisor Ruth Calloway keeps the ledger—a meticulous record of every trunk call logged by minute and line.
- The Tampered Ledger…Someone had erased the original entries for the crucial hour, rewritten them in a perfect imitation of her hand, and signed her name with a forgery so exact that only this one, private, intimate failure gave it away. She sat back. The hum of the exchange pressed against the frosted glas…
- A Simple Question…chest like a stone she had swallowed whole. The police had asked for the ledger. She had retrieved it. She had opened it. She had seen the forgery. And instead of picking up the telephone and calling the station, she had closed the ledger and put it back in the drawer and walked to the…
- Scrutinizing the Pages…e her, and the question had not followed her. It had been replaced by something more urgent. Someone had written this page in her hand. The forgery was nearly perfect—the slant of the letters, the particular way her ‘f’ crossed its bar high and to the right, the slight leftward lean of…