Time Sherlocks

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Novelette

Blood Trail

  • by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001)
Detective Wheldon, the top man in NYPD Homicide is approached by two FBI agents who offer to let him go back in time two weeks to observe the 4th killing by a serial killer.

This is the first story in Future Imperfect, a 2001 anthology of 12 original time-travel stories, co-edited by the prolific anthologist Martin H. Greenberg (1941-2011) who was also a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. —Michael Main
When it became clear that time travel was even a remote possibility, the government bought a lot of scientists. Those who didn’t play got discredited.
A warped gold pockewatch with Arabic numerals and a separate second hand on its own dial.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Story

In the Chocolate Bar

Steven Mentzel discovered that the original recipe for Abelard chocolate has been removed from the safe where it is kept. He asks for help from Jacques Pepin, and a somewhat unlikely trio show up to help him. —Tandy Ringoringo
“Who are you looking for?” Steven asked.

“Myself,” she said, peering up and down the busy Boston street.“It’s not a good sign. I usually come back to reassure me that we’ve succeeded. I wonder what's holding me up?”

“Maybe it’s just a delay,” the clerk suggested concerned by the look on the tall woman’s face.
 
“You couldn’t get back in time?”

“It’s time travel,” Julia corrected him. “There’s always time to get back where you started. ”
A green drink with ice sits on a brown bar in front of a warped stopwatch.
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel