The Robot in the Closet

Synopsis

Sara Tenbrook intended to shake down her family tree. She was proud of her distinguished ancestors... and besides there was the matter of a lost fortune waiting somewhere among the centuries past. So she rented a time machine and invited her boyfriend along. The time machine was a robot. It could climb down any branch of the old Tenbrook family tree and take them to it. But it could also talk and take on disguises, and had an ego bigger than all creation! That family tree may have borne some golden apples - but the more that walkie-talkie time robot explored, the more assorted nuts it turned up! (from the back cover of the DAW Books first edition)