Notes
Notes from the bench
Locks, keys and a canal town that works. No lectures, and nothing that spoils the books.
A cylinder is a list of depths
How Bess Ward thinks about a pin-tumbler lock: not a personality, a stack of pins and a list of depths.
A tag is a name a key will answer to
Why every spare at Ward Lock & Key hangs on an assigned hook with yellow tape and block printing.
The third lock is a machine
The canal town behind the series: oil, wet wood, iron, and gates that hit on the hour.