The Devil’s Due
Bonnie MacBird
"The long thin wedge. I had heard Mycroft speak of it before. It was a metaphor, I suppose, for whatever he did at Whitehall."
"The long thin wedge. I had heard Mycroft speak of it before. It was a metaphor, I suppose, for whatever he did at Whitehall."
"Up the stairs, I paused for a quick glance in the library—it certainly passed my muster—and then continued to my own flat, pulling the key out of my pocket."
"Virgil spent the afternoon reviewing Trane’s work; the room was cool and damp and smelled like paper and floor wax."
"Last night I dreamt I went to Queens Boulevard again."
"Most of Downing College, with the exception of the East Lodge, was built of an oolitic limestone known as Ketton stone."
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