Who Stole Sassi Manoon by Donald E Westlake

Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: caper, crime, humor
Publisher: Charter
Published: 1969-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

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Frank said, "It's on the second floor, all the way down the hall from the stairs."

Robby said, "No elevator?"

Frank said, "It's only two stories high, they don't need an elevator."

Robby said, "I was thinking about the rug."

Kelly said, "What's in the rooms around it?"

Frank said, "Men's room past it, the only other thing before the end of the hall. Conference room this side, small, got a round table, half a dozen chairs. Big conference room and broom closet across the hall."

Kelly said, "What's the chance of people in those rooms?"

Frank said, "Men's room, who can say? But none in the conference rooms."

Kelly said, "How do you know?"

Frank said, "I remembered the numbers of those rooms. Twenty-five and twenty-eight. Downstairs by the desk there's a notice board, says what meeting is where at what time. The smaller conference room has nothing scheduled all day, and the bigger one has nothing til three o'clock this afternoon."

Kelly said, "All right. What about the projectionist? In the room with her?"

Frank said, "No. There's two doors in there, almost right next to each other. They're marked twenty-seven and twenty-seven A. Twenty-seven lets you into the screening room, twenty-seven A lets you into the projectionist's booth. There's a high step up just inside the door."

Kelly said, "Any way from the projectionist's booth into the screening room?"

Frank said, "No. Only out to the hall and in the next door."

Kelly said, "How big's the booth?"

Frank said, "Maybe five by eight. Really cramped. The two projectors are on the two sides, with the clear space in the middle. There's a folding chair there, and a table top that lets down from the wall. When it's down, two people in there wouldn't be able to get past each other. Up above it there's a sliding-door peephole into the screening room."

Robby said, "What about the screening room? How big's that?"

Frank said, "Regular room size. The screen's a permanent fixture, against the wall opposite the door, over where the window would be if there was a window. There's ten good-sized theater seats facing it, five on either side of a center aisle. They're in two rows, two on each side in the front row, three on each side in back. They're dark blue, with white plastic, and there's spaces between them, and ashtrays built into the left arm. They're wider than regular theater seats. And more comfortable. There's wide space between the back row of seats and the wall of the projectionist's booth. Covered with blue carpet."

Robby said, "Wide enough for us?"

Frank said, "Guaranteed. Room to spare."

Robby said, "Any side doors into the screening room? Any other way in besides the door from the hall?"

Frank said, "No, that's it. Just the one entrance."

Robby said, "They got to have a fire exit. You can't run a theater with only one way out."

Frank said, "This isn't a theater, it's a screening room. The most people they're set up for is ten. They don't need a lot of exits."

Kelly said, "Besides, this isn't New York City.

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