The Disappearing Professor: A Professor Missing (reopened)

Findings

• Halsey's notes refer to 'the third door' as though it were a place he had been.

The record

Monday, 18 October 1926

1. 06:11 Initial report received. New information on the old file — a notice posted on Saturday 9 October (Missing) is found to bear on it.
2. 06:11 Linked to an earlier file: The Disappearing Professor: A Professor Missing, closed 23 September (escaped).
3. 07:56 Wren takes up the investigation.
4. 11:04 Wren arrives at Rare Books Room.
5. 11:16 Card catalogue examined.
6. 11:36 Wren reports a smell of coal-gas from the lamps.
7. 11:48 Glass cases noted in the basement store.
8. 12:11 Nothing of note found.
9. 12:25 Wren leaves Rare Books Room.
10. 15:01 Wren arrives at Miskatonic University Library. (Miskatonic University Library)
11. 15:09 Inquiry extends to Miskatonic University Library. (Miskatonic University Library)
12. 15:19 Wren moves to the reading room. (Miskatonic University Library)
13. 15:30 Wren reports a smell of chalk dust. (Miskatonic University Library)
14. 15:40 Wren notes ledgers stacked to the ceiling. (Miskatonic University Library)
15. 16:06 Finding: Halsey's notes refer to 'the third door' as though it were a place he had been. (Miskatonic University Library)
16. 16:22 Wren leaves Miskatonic University Library. (Miskatonic University Library)
17. 21:46 Wren arrives at Miskatonic University Library. (Miskatonic University Library)
18. 22:03 Strong smell of a smell nobody could name — sweet, and wrong noted. (Miskatonic University Library)
19. 22:21 Frost on the inside of the glass noted in the basement store. (Miskatonic University Library)
20. 22:32 Wren notes a gentleman in a silk hat and morning coat: he crossed the road, and crossed back, 5 times, in the same manner each time. (Miskatonic University Library)
21. 22:40 Late in the reading room, the lamps dim along one gallery, and the ledger lies open at a page nobody left it on. (Miskatonic University Library)
22. 22:40 Outcome: Partially solved. (Miskatonic University Library)

Tuesday, 19 October 1926

1. 10:28 Wren waits at Kellerman's Lunch Room. (Kellerman's Lunch Room)
2. 10:58 The team agree the file: partially solved. (Kellerman's Lunch Room)
3. 11:25 The file is put away. (Kellerman's Lunch Room)
4. 11:30 Afterwards: Miskatonic University Library is quiet, for now; Wren has become more careful.

Connected files

• The Disappearing Professor: A Professor Missing21 September
• The Disappearing Professor: The Stair Below28 October