Suspects—nine (2015)
“By good luck, as he left the block of flats where Lady Alice lived, he saw a cruising police car, and, after a certain amount of badinage, including a threat on the part of the crew of the car to run him in as a suspected character, and an offer on his to hide in the gear box so that no inquisitive superior should see him and want to know why cruising police cars gave joy rides to wandering policemen, he was conveyed to the even larger block where Ernie Maddox occupied an even smaller flat—all ...heaven in a band-box, the management used to say to prospective tenants. ‘ Fortunately, there was a night porter on duty and to him, Bobby, without saying who he was, explained that a nervous, elderly maiden aunt of Miss Maddox’s—Bobby enjoyed giving this description of Lady Alice—was dreadfully worried because the young lady had not kept an appointment.
“You know what old ladies are like,” Bobby said confidentially, thinking he would give half a week’s pay for Lady Alice to hear him; “traffic accidents on the brain and all that.”MoreLess
“You know what old ladies are like,” Bobby said confidentially, thinking he would give half a week’s pay for Lady Alice to hear him; “traffic accidents on the brain and all that.”MoreLess
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