Sullivan, Eleanor (ed) - Ellery Queen's Bad Scenes / Салливан, Элеанор (ред) - Неприятный опыт [1989, EPUB, ENG]

The Question by STANLEY ELLIN The Old Barn on the Pond by URSULA CURTISS Her Heart's Home by MARY McMULLEN The Phonograph Murder by HELEN REILLY Testimony of a Witness / Выстрел by McGARRY MORLEY The Night Calhoun Was Off Duty by THOMAS WALSH The Missing Mortgagee by R. AUSTIN FREEMAN The Beauty in That House by FLORENCE V. MAYBERRY Man in Hiding by VINCENT STARRETT Mrs. Kendall's Trunk by ROBERT TWOHY Franz Kafka, Detective: The Bird of Ill Omen by CHARLES WEST, JR. Falling Object by WILLIAM BRITTAIN The Mysterious Death in Percy Street by BARONESS ORCZY The Good Times Always End by DAVID MORRELL The Men in Black Raincoats by PETE HAMILL Monday Is a Quiet Place by MARJORIE CARLETON The Shop That Exchanged Evils by LORD DUNSANY The Bag Man by BROOKE WELD The Neighbors by JOHN GALSWORTHY A Question of Neighborliness by DAVID ELY Who's the Blonde? by JOHN D. MACDONALD In a Country Churchyard by ROBERT L. FISH Déjà Vu / Наваждение by MARY BARRETT Fishing Can Be Fatal by STEPHEN WASYLYK Rear Window / Окно во двор by CORNELL WOOLRICH

It was well after seven when he asked them again if he could call Helen. It had become an almost automatic question on Tom Weldon’s part, and each time he had asked there had been neither permission nor denial—just an infuriating obtuseness, as though he had spoken in Arabic or had been a silly child asking for the moon. His throat felt dry as he said again, “Please, could I call my wife? She’ll be worried.” At the moment there were three of them in the bank president’s office, three of them looking at him with those coldly amused eyes. There was Durand, from the police; Elvinard, one of the bank examiners; and Vic Reisher, the chief teller. ...