Ellery Queen’s Anthology. Volume 1, 1960

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An outstanding short detective novel that you will discover to be jar more “real” than most of the highly touted “realistic” tough yarns. Hugh Pentecost is one of the most conscientious and crafty writers in the mystery genre today — and still growing in versatility and in technical virtuosity...

Breakfast was always at 11 in the morning. Mike asked only one thing of the two girls, and that was that they come to breakfast and be on time. Since he never went to bed much before 5 in the morning, himself, it wasn’t asking much. Joan usually had been up for quite a while and had only coffee at the 11 o’clock session. Erika was often with Mike on his morning rounds, and when she wasn’t, she was usually on some kind of tear of her own. She’d complain sometimes about having to get up at 11. Mike pointed out that he always took a nap in the late afternoon and there was no reason she shouldn’t do the same.

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