Robert Asprin "The station of time"

Natural cataclysm claimed the lives of many people, but gave the survivors the opportunity to travel to the past: opening with a certain periodicity Gates, leading to a certain place and time in the past. Enterprising business people immediately realized that from travel to the past, you can get to come, and not a little. So in the places of the Gates conglomeration appeared Railway stations, allowing tourists to travel to variousera. And at these stations, professional time scouts are working, the first to step into the unexplored gates, and guides conducting excursions in the distant (and not so) past for tourists.

Eighty-sixth time station (stationShangri-la, which its inhabitants call simply La-la-llandia) lived its stormy, but rather monotonous life, exactly until the moment when a red-haired, impudent girl appeared at the station Margot Smith. She became interested in becoming the first woman to be a scout of the time, and in the role of her teacher she saw the most famous scout of the time - Kit Carson, retired and residing at VV-86.

Of course, Kit Carson was not thrilled with thisideas and avoided Margo in every possible way. But she told him something, after which he could not refuse her. And that the process of learning was more fun, he asked for help from his friend, a free guide Malcolm Moore, who was just looking for somewhere to earn him. They do not yet know how many times they will have to get Margot out ...

The "Time Station" series, written by Robert Asprin in co-authorship with Linda Evans, comprises four books:

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  Time Scout (Time Scout)
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  Time Scammers (Wagers of Sin)
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  Ripping Time
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  The house that Jack built (The House that Jack Built)

Heroes Robert Asprin go to differentcountry and era, catch swindlers and swindlers hiding in the past from their enraged victims and even try to solve the riddle of the most famous serial killer of all time and people, Jack the Ripper, going to London in the 19th century to get a glimpse of the crime scene.

Exciting, is not it? Station time-86 someone will seem a fun place, someone - frightening, but boring it can not be called exactly. In La-lala, something is always happening and, of course, our heroes are always at the very epicenter of events! Go and you are traveling back in time Together with Margot, Keith and Malcolm, feel like a brave intelligence scout.

Quotations from the book

Distinguish tourists from permanent residentsthe eighty-sixth was easy. Tourists are those with gaping mouths, round eyes with surprise and constantly decreasing bank accounts. As if the children who found their grandmother's attic and put on their long-forgotten rags, they were dressed up in all sorts of things declared by the costumers of the current "fashion of the century". Always uncomfortable fuss with unusual items of the toilet, outlandish kind of luggage and coins, God brought news from which countries, gave them out even faster than, say, visitors on the streets of New York clashed upside down.

Here, out of the eighty-sixth, on the contrary,differed in that they did not do anything like that. They never looked at anything in surprise, they were completely uncharacteristic of the most insufferable of tourist habits - to make out of themselves the omnibus, which is only waiting, with whom to share their knowledge - a typical bravado! - Yes, they could not distinguish the drachma from sestra, even if their life depended on it.

That here on the BB-86, it could well have happened.