“And this one is?”
“That one, Sgt Lace, is the key to the Time Field where the Thief-Taker General is locked away. He was a bright, intelligent man and started his life on the right side of the law. He caught criminals and sent them to the noose regularly. Then, he had an even better idea: he’d pay other criminals to undertake robberies. They thought that they were going to get rich, but all they got was a trip to the Hangman because he’d inform on them and catch them red-handed. A very nice individual indeed and worthy of his key, which, as you can see, is the handle from a rusty chamber pot. He wasn’t well-liked.”
Time Field“And the dagger with the red heart etched onto the handle?”
“That is the knife that opened poor Christopher Marlowe’s neck one night down in Deptford. It belongs t
