night shift
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…sed her eyes. The exchange hummed. Somewhere in the hall, a plug clicked into a jack. A voice murmured a number. The ordinary sounds of the night shift, the sounds she had trusted for eleven years. She could report this. She could telephone the detective back, tell him the ledger had been t…
- The Fault Log…r the seventh of October, her eyes catching on the familiar codes: line faults, equipment failures, routine maintenance calls logged by the night shift engineers. Her finger stopped on the fault log entry. The ink was the same dark blue as the ledger’s forgery—not the standard black that mo…
- Pressure from the Police…pervise every entry myself.” “Every entry.” Miller leaned forward, his elbows finding her desk. “That’s quite a claim. Six operators on the night shift, isn’t it? Do you watch every hand that touches the log? Every correction, every amendment?” Ruth’s throat tightened. He was circling somet…