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Curtains for Three

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by Rex Stout


  Cramer eyed him. “I don’t believe it,” he said flatly.

  “You have a record of Mr. Goodwin’s report of that conversation. Consult it.”

  “I still wouldn’t believe it.”

  “There were other little items.” Wolfe wiggled a finger. “For example: the strangler of Doris Hatten had a key to the door. But surely the provider, who had so carefully avoided revealment, would not have marched in at an unexpected hour to risk encountering strangers. And who so likely to have found an opportunity, or contrived one, to secure a duplicate key as the provider’s jealous wife?”

  “Talk all day. I still don’t believe it.”

  Well, I thought to myself, observing Wolfe’s smirk and for once completely approving of it, Cramer the office-sealer has his choice of believing it or not and what the hell.

  As for me, I had no choice.

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  illustration dramatized Stout’s story The Gun Wings, which originally appeared in the Decem 1949 issue of The American Magazine.

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