The Runaway Skyscraper

The story opens on a bustling New York skyscraper where the great clock in the Metropolitan Tower suddenly begins to run backward. A sudden shudder and a deafening crash ripple through the building, yet the elevators keep moving and the office workers carry on as if nothing had happened. The unsettling incident leaves the characters—and the reader—wondering whether the tower itself has become unstable or if something far stranger is afoot.

Amid the confusion, we meet Arthur Chamberlain, a charming yet financially overextended businessman, and his sharp‑witted stenographer, Miss Woodward. Arthur is racing against time to keep his firm afloat, while Woodward wrestles with her own doubts about love and a future without marriage. Their uneasy partnership is tested as the oddities of the tower begin to echo the uncertainties in their lives, promising a tale that blends urban mystery with personal drama.