Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 50, No. 1. Whole No. 284, July 1967

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We challenge you on three counts:

One: we challenge you to stop reading this short novel once you have started it.

Two: we challenge you to think of a more unusual short novel inutile mystery field.

Three: we challenge you to name another mystery story that deals with a “taboo” theme as honestly and inoffensively as Charlotte Armstrong does — or with less “sensationalism” than Charlotte Armstrong uses in handling so “delicate” a subject.

As we said above, this is one of the most unusual short novels EQMM has ever published...

Halley was sure clad the damn fog had rolled up and was billowing off over the mountains. Hey, if you looked southwest, you could even see a couple of stars. Lucky. They might have to hang around, maybe till morning.

And it was a little too quiet out here. Not much traffic on California Route 1; on a night like this there had better not be. The sea kept booming; it always did. The men shouted once in a while at their work, but they knew their business. They’d have her up on the road, and pretty quick.

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