The brilliant Dr. Bird might well give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money when solving cases that involved modern science as does the case of the money that disappeared from a teller’s cage right before his eyes. Alas, the solution involved no time travel, but it did involve a time-related phenomenon made famous in a story by an author whose notoriety in sf circles exceeds even that of Holmes’s creator.
—Michael Main
“But someone must have taken it,” said the bewildered cashier. “Money doesn’t just walk off of its own accord or vanish into thin air—"

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  1. “The Thief of Time” by Captain S. P. Meek, Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Captain S. P. Meek
  2. audio reading.
    “The Thief of Time” by Captain S. P. Meek, Maria Lectrix #1589–1590, 27 June 2009 [podcast] [Podcast accessed at https://marialectrix.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/1589-part-1-of-the-thief-of-time-by-s-p-meek-from-astounding-stories-of-super-science-feb-1930// on 6 March 2022].
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Captain S. P. Meek
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Maureen O’Brien
  3. audio reading.
    “The Thief of Time” by Captain S. P. Meek, in Astounding Stories 02: February 1930, coordinated by Alan Winterrowd (LibriVox, June 2013) [audio] [Audio collection accessed at https://librivox.org/astounding-stories-02-february-1930-by-various/ on 8 April 2022.].
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Captain S. P. Meek
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . narrated by Steven Bateman
  4. alternative byline.
    “The Thief of Time,” as by Capt. S. P. Meek, in Anthology of Sci-Fi, vol. 22, The Pulp Writers: Capt. S. P. Meek (Spastic Cat Press, July 2013).
    5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Captain S. P. Meek as by Capt. S. P. Meek