The Tea-Time Paradox:
Chapter One: Professor Tobias Finch and His Time Machine
Professor Tobias Finch was the sort of man who treated the concept of lunch as a minor inconvenience between discoveries. At forty-two, he had the hair of a mad scientist, the wardrobe of someone who had lost a bet with a tailor, and a fascination with history that was so intense it occasionally startled unsuspecting pigeons.