title: Crime Through Time #5: Iced!: The 2007 Journal of Nick Fitzmorgan
author: Bill Doyle
description: Bill Doyle has worked as a freelance editor and writer at The Discovery Channel, Comedy Central, the American Museum of Natural History, Time For Kids, LeapFrog and Scholastic, among others.<br />
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  # Time Crime
  
  
  ### H. Beam Piper
  
  
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  Transcriber's note.
  
  This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction Magazine  
  February and March 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any  
  evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
  
  
  
  
  
  TIME CRIME
  
  
  BY H. BEAM PIPER
  
  First of Two Parts. The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing
  one man in a population of millions is easy—compared to finding one gang
  hiding out on one of billions of probability lines!
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Part 1
  
  
  ASTOUNDING SCIENCE-FICTION
  
  Kiro Soran, the guard captain, stood in the shadow of the veranda roof, his
  white cloak throw