Charles Williams
The Long Saturday Night
Cassell 1964
Jacket design by John Brown
We interested in buying pre 1941 UK first editions in jacket
We are paying the VERY HIGHEST prices for choice items
If you have anything you may consider selling
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The day it began was January 5th. I'd gone shooting that morning, and it was a little after one p.m. when I got to the office. Clebourne's the main street, and the central business district is about seven blocks long. Warren Realty is in the second block from the west end, with J.C. Penney's on one side and Fuller's Cafe on the other, and, except that it's mine, it could be any small-town real estate office anywhere—the plate glass window with a few of the current listings posted in it, a split-leaf philoden-dron here and there, two salesmen's desks forever cluttered with papers, and, as a sort of focal point like the medulla oblongata of the human nervous system, another desk with a typewriter, several telephones, a Notary sign, and a girl who knows where everything is buried, including the bodies. The girl in this case is Barbara Ryan, if girl is the correct term for a thirty-year-old divorcee. |