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CHAPTER ONE<br >It was nine o clock on a Wednesday morning in May, and<br >Andrew Basnett, who had been out late the evening before<br >and had overslept, was in his kitchen, dressed in pyjamas, his<br >dressing gown and a pair of socks, and was making coffee for<br >his breakfast when the doorbell rang.<br > Assuming that it was the p.ostman, trying to deliver a pack-<br >age that would not go throdgh the letter box, Andrew went<br >to the door and opened it.<br > It was not the postman. 12 was Andrew s old friend and<br >colleague Professor Constance Camm, F.R.S., whom it was<br >very surprising to find at his door at that hour of the morning.<br > Now that she was retired, she lived with her sister in the<br >village of Lindleham in Berkshire, and on the occasions when<br >she wanted to meet Andrew, usually made careful arrange-<br >ments by telephone several days beforehand. She would<br >then probably invite him to lunch with her at her club, or<br >after some persuasion might allow him to take her out to<br >lunch at one of his favourite Soho restaurants. She had only<br >rarely visited the fiat in St. John s Wood, where he lived, and<br >then never at such an early hour.<br > He felt embarrassed on seeing her, not only because she<br >had caught him in pyjamas and dressing gown and still un-<br >shaven, but mostly because he was without slippers. When he<br >was alone in his fiat he usually padded about it in his socks,<br >leaving his slippers wherever it had occurred to him to kick<br >them off. Today they were on the rug in the middle of his<br >sitting room, and the first thing that he did on bringing her<br ><br >
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The Other Devil's Name pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024