At the Time Appointed

A man vanishes from a locked room. Years pass. Witnesses die or disappear. But someone has been waiting, watching, and most importantly, remembering. At the Time Appointed weaves a tapestry of seemingly unrelated events that slowly, inevitably converge toward a single moment of reckoning. Maynard Barbour, the master behind That Mainwaring Affair, constructs a puzzle box of a novel where every seemingly stray thread finds its purpose in the end. The title itself is a promise: justice may be delayed, but it arrives precisely when appointed. This is old-school detection at its finest, where patience is a virtue and nothing is wasted. Readers who delight in seeing a complex web methodically unraveled will find exactly what they seek.