title: Just Killing Time (A Clock Shop Mystery)
author:  Julianne Holmes 
description: <b>Julianne Holmes</b>'s short stories have appeared in the award-winning<i>Level Best Books</i>.<i>Just Killing Time</i>is the first in her new Clock Shop mystery series.
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  Twenty Clocks for Death  
  
  
    
  
  
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  # Twenty Clocks for Death
  
  
  ### By Cyril Plunkett
  
  
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  Old Ed Turner was overjoyed to get that night watchman's job. But he did not
  know that one night he'd have to set ....
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ED said: “Listen, Elise, even if I am an old duffer, we're going to dance.”
  
  “But a whole dollar!” breathed his
  
  “I've been talking to my friends.”
  
  That dollar had been wisely spent, Ed told himself. Elise was flushed and
  happy, too. She admitted, after Charlie had gone, that she liked him. She had
  a date with him for Wednesday night to go to a show, and she said: “Ed, we've
  had so much bad luck, it's bound to be good now.”
  
  “He's smooth, all right,” Ed agreed. “Pretty smooth....”
  
  A messenger came early Tuesday morning. Charlie Garth had sent him. Charlie
  had heard that the night watchman at the