Love Kills

ISBN: 9780151547234

定价: 57.00

内容简介

Linda Lowry??? possessor of the third best set of breasts in
her graduating class at Hunter College??? unmarried though she
could have accepted any of several proposals of marriage from
perfectly presentable albeit prematurely balding men??? unlocks
the three police locks on the door of her fashionable East Side
studio apartment??? hears her phone ring for the seventh time. and
enters the last half-hour of her life on earth.
In her haste to get to the ringing telephone she lets the heavy
steel door to the apartment thunk closed behind her without lock-
ing it from the inside as she usually does. On the eighth ring???
silently cursing her answering service for not picking up on the
third ring as they re paid to??? she scoops the cherry-red receiver out
of its cradle and claps it to her ear.
\"--owry residence???\" says the bored nasal voice of the woman
at the answering service.
\"It s all right??? I ve got it???\" says Linda??? sitting down on the
unmade bed in the sleeping alcove and exposing an expanse of
shapely and much-sought-after thigh in the process.
\"Oh??? there she is???\" says the bored nasal voice to the caller in a
tone which suggests it was Linda and not she who was deficient in
the phone-answering department and then clicks off the line.
\"Linda?\" A familiar male voice.
\"Oh??? hello??? Arnold???\" says Linda audibly exhaling and adopt-
ing the voice she reserves for perfectly presentable albeit pre-
maturely balding men
Do~aastairs the man ~th the vacant look in his eyes and the
flowers in his hands enters the marble-floored lobby of the apart.
ment building. Although it is a bitingly cold December night??? the
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