The Girl Who Kept Knocking Them Dead

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Hampton Stone. The Girl Who Kept Knocking Them Dead

The Girl Who Kept Knocking Them Dead

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Hampton Stone

Her name was Sydney Bell, except that it wasn’t; but we’ll come to that later. Let’s start with the simple and easy things like who I am and how I got into this business of the girl who kept knocking them dead. That was the way Gibby came to describe it and I’ll tell you about Gibby. I can’t get far telling you about me without telling you about him.

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That was the whole of it and it was more than we were ever to have from any of the other neighbors. Some of the others, as a matter of fact, were eagerly co-operative, but that was only a matter of attitude. They had nothing to give us apart from their willingness to give.

What we actually had at the beginning of this thing, aside from these tantalizing bits and pieces Gibby did manage to extract from Nora McGuire, was a small collection of quite as fragmentary and quite as tantalizing snippets of physical evidence. We had in the first place the body of Sydney Bell herself. I have already said she was young and pretty. We could to some extent see that from the body, but as Gibby had told the McGuire girl we hadn’t seen the body until after she had been more than twenty-four hours dead, and in that length of time an appalling lot of prettiness goes.

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