By Rex Stout
A bidding warfare for his prone interrupts Nero Wolfe's makes an attempt to unravel the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case within which the police appear oddly bored stiff. Reissue.
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She was eighteen, tall and straight, with skin the color of the wild thyme honey that Wolfe gets from Greece, and she was extremely proud of something, not her looks. When a woman is proud of her looks it's just a smirk. I don't think I stammered, but if I didn't I should have. " But probably she didn't. " and her voice raised was even more wonderful than her voice low. She turned back to me, graceful as a big cat, and stood there straight and proud, not quite smiling, her warm dark eyes as curious as if she had never seen a man before.
I took a second. "The body must have rolled in since five o'clock; that's when Con Ed men usually quit if it's not an emergency. " "How do I know? " "Positive. One of the men we sent knew him. " "That's not official yet, but there's a hole in the side of his head that he didn't make with his finger. Look, Archie. His file from the morgue was here on my desk when the flash came. Within an hour everybody here will know that I sent for it two hours in advance. I don't mind being mysterious, but it could be a nuisance if this gets big.
But it was 7:20, and no sign of him. It was useless trying to guess what the hitch was, so I did. By 7:30 I had a collection of a dozen guesses, both plain and fancy. At 7:35 I was too annoyed to bother to guess. At 7:40 I told Mike Collins, the hackie, who was no stranger, "Nuts. I'll take a look," got out, and walked to the corner. Al was still there in his cab in front of the lunchroom. " He yawned. " "I'll ring him. If he comes while I'm inside, have trouble starting your engine until I come out and go.