Date with Death

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Leslie Ford. Date with Death

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CHAPTER 1

The young man lying at the end of the pier, over the moonlit water of the creek, adjusted his lank loose-jointed frame to cooperate with the uneven oak plank under him and shifted his pipe to the other side of his wide mouth. The Llewellyn setter stretched out beside him raised his head and thumped the boards with his feathered tail.

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“Wait till I turn off the light, I don’t want the battery to run down.—Or go on in, the key’s over the screen door. Phone for a taxi while you’re at it.”

Jonas put his pipe in his pocket and bent down to roll up the mat. When he started up the pier to the house, the yellow path of light from the car was gone. He stopped a moment until he saw another light spring up in the window of the cottage.

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