The House without the Door (26 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Daly
Gamadge said in a slow, menacing drawl: "Have I got to sit down and work it out just to indulge your passion for detail?"
"No, butâ" Harold met his eye, and stopped. Mrs. Stoner said primly: "I don't know when Mr. Gamadge came to Pine Lots." Clara remarked: "I don't know when Henry got home."
"Nobody knows, and nobody cares, if you don't." Gamadge shook the typed pages in his hand. "All ready?"
The class came to attention.
"Then," said Gamadge, "please repeat after me."
A chorus rose; Belden's
r
's rolling richly, Mrs. Stoner's pipe lagging behind the rest: "On Tuesday afternoon, November the twenty-fifth, at four o'clockâ¦"
All the characters and events portrayed in this work are fictitious.
THE HOUSE WITHOUT THE DOOR
A Felony & Mayhem "Vintage" mystery
PUBLISHING HISTORY
First U.S. print edition (Farrar & Rinehart): 1942
Felony & Mayhem print edition: 2006
Felony & Mayhem electronic edition: 2012
Copyright © 1941 by Elizabeth Daly
Copyright renewed 1971 by Frances Daly Harris, Virginia Taylor,
Eleanor Boylan, Elizabeth T. Daly, and Wilfrid Augustin Daly, Jr.
All rights reserved
E-book ISBN: 978-1-937384-17-3
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