A Story From America
August 14th 1960, I was working late at the office that night. It was like one of those nights that gives you shiver, when you think about them. The cold air was tickling me in the neck, when it slowly blowed into the room from the open window. The lights from the street made me so annoyed that I hartly could find and read the papers I was looking for. Finally I found them, they were hiding in my personal archive of cases connected with murder.
My attention suddenly breaks when my secretary, a young talented woman with many unusual skills, approaches the office. She always talks, normaly I just pretend to listen, but this time I could feel something was different. She had an idea, maybe ...
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a point there", I responded, what was on her mind ? That blue dress certainly showed her fine curves, actually I coundn’t get her of my mind most of the time. "Well, her apartment lies on the corner of Main Street and Baker Street, there’re three windows, one on Baker St. and one Main St. plus one in the middle. That night Mrs Alpher was shot, it was very warm, and if she then had a window open. A person could have shot her in hers apartment, from his or hers own window", she looked satisfied after finishing her composing. "So what you’re trying to say, is that we maybe could find the murder in one of the apartments opposite Mrs Alpher’s windows". The idea wasn’t bad at all I thoungt, she opened the new cupboard to get some files. "OK. we’ll go over to her apartment right away".
It was quite strange to enter the apartment, it had an unusual structure, but also it had a certain charm with it’s three windows in the end of the living room. I tryed to ...
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but wasn’t home at the time of the killing.
After hearing all three alibis, I sat down trying to find out who had the best reason for killing Mrs Alpher. Mr Appleton was apparently the headsuspect, because he had permission to carry a gun. But all murders didn’t always have permission to carry guns, so Mrs Sherly with her jealousy was also a headsuspect. Mr Edwoods whom said he wasn’t home at the time of the killing, has the best point of view to the apartment, also he could have do it, if he was lieing. Suddenly the phone starts ringing, I pick up the receiver hoping something incredible had happened. "It’s the downtown policedepartment, Agent Cooper ? One of your suspects was ...
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