The Convivial Codfish
“The people he wanted to see were probably still in the hospital or possibly on their way to the morgue. As for calling to find out, he might as well quit before he started. The hospital switchboard would either be swamped with calls or shut down. There’d be police at the doors to keep anybody but their next of kin from reaching the patients in so sensational a mass poisoning. Rather than chase wild geese all the way to Bexhill, he might as well go after the ones nearer to hand first.
Tracking d...own Edward Ashbroom’s pied-à-terre seemed to be as good an exercise in futility as any. It wasn’t listed in the phone book, but Max hadn’t expected it to be. Jem had thought the place was on Joy Street somewhere. He hadn’t known the number, but Joy wasn’t a long street. Max didn’t suppose Ashbroom himself would be there, but he hoped the girl friend might. He smiled a little to himself, recalling those daughters of joy who’d given the street its name back in the wicked old days before dating bars.MoreLess
Tracking d...own Edward Ashbroom’s pied-à-terre seemed to be as good an exercise in futility as any. It wasn’t listed in the phone book, but Max hadn’t expected it to be. Jem had thought the place was on Joy Street somewhere. He hadn’t known the number, but Joy wasn’t a long street. Max didn’t suppose Ashbroom himself would be there, but he hoped the girl friend might. He smiled a little to himself, recalling those daughters of joy who’d given the street its name back in the wicked old days before dating bars.MoreLess
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