As Monty Python would opine: “And now for something completely different …”

https://archive.org/details/Unknown_v06n05_1943-02_slpn/page/n48/mode/1up

A whodunnit type of story in which the resolution involves knowledge of how a certain classic Heavy Metal machine operates.

IMO, delightful.

First published in Unknown Worlds, February 1943.

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