Mystery Murder

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had belonged, and aske

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was very lookable, even in a pickle. "I would like," I

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as you can. We may

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" Bolton demand

Not divorced, but she uses her own name. F

ast night when I was with her and told her to come for him at eight o'clock this evening, and I asked Judy to let me go instead of her. I have been trying to see hi

it. G

o'clock I went to her place and she brought it from the gara

is her

Number seventeen

u got in the

Ferrell Street. It's

w where

t a year. I got there a little before eight, and turned around and parked in front of the alley. Judy had said she always waited for him there. He didn't com

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rist. "Two minute

went throug

e it was too dark and I had the cap pulled down. Of course it could have been Daniel, his man as he calls him, playing the radio, but I don't think so because he would have heard the knocker and come to the door. I finally gave up and went back to the cab, and as I was getting in

o wa

he couldn't expect him to marry her, and neither could anyone else. But I wasn't thinking about that while I sat there, I was thinking what to do. I knew the right thing was to call the

u left the cab to go to the house at

ooked in at the windows, and then knocked some

ere to here wouldn't take more than ten minutes, and you go

ce when I stopped for a light a man opened the door and when I told him I was making a delivery he almost climbed in anyway. Then I thought I would just leave the cab somewhere, anywhere, and I went to a phone booth to call Judy and tell her

kill her, but it doesn't follow that I swallow you whole. For instance, the divorce situation. If the fact i

the truth, every word. I lied to you out th

w good a friend of y

She's a little wild, but

sure she

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ss your fingers."

y appreciate it, our minds should meet. D

ing hypothe

iss Nest would be driving the cab? Since Watson didn't show, taking h

een Impromptu. Or the embarrassment could have

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frown was get

bt if Nelly has ever allowed any man to be intim

had any reason to

d lor

d got an idea that she would like to break the ice

t to say that anything is pos

ke it that whoever killed her knew that you were going to drive the

don't believe it. Nelly wo

ble that you told

. Twice. Two secon

time to be polite. You're

ld couldn't possibly have... have done

was

. Coupe,

my wallet, got up, and went to her. "Here's your fifty bu

ll you he

bite him. But I've got to know e

d again. "You wou

give

will. With regrets

of mine last eve- ning and told

ore than

and so am I. We're f

. They've known each other for yea

know Nora

her. He did

him about your plan

hat he thought of it. He is

d he thin

. He thought my husband would refuse to listen to me. Hon

he one-way glass panel of the front door. A man and a woman were there on the stoop. A glance was enough to recognize Inspector Darwin, but it took closer inspection for the woman