Ellery Queen - 1954 - The Glass Village by The Glass Village

Author:The Glass Village
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-15T12:11:49+00:00

The Judge said slowly, “Unless we can come up with another stranger in Shinn Corners yesterday, for which there’s no evidence whatever—I’ve already sounded out everyone within reach—Fanny Adams was beaten to death by someone in this village who’d known her all his life. I use the masculine pronoun,” growled the Judge, “in its inclusive sense. It doesn’t take much strength to smash the skull of a ninety-one-year-old woman with a heavy poker.”

“In other words, you want me on that jury as a detective? My job being to detect who among your neighbors clobbered Aunt Fanny if Josef Kowalczyk didn’t?”

“Yes.”

Johnny thought of what he had had to cover with the kitchen towel in the Adams studio . . . . He had the queerest sense of personal loss. Ten minutes of conversation in a noisy room, one touch of the dry warm hand

—how could he fed that he had known this old woman from the cradle?

Yet her death touched a vital, secret center in him. It left him uncomfortable. Almost emotional.

“All right, Judge,” said Johnny.

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