The Philadelphia Murder Story: A Colonel Primrose Mystery

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Leslie Ford. The Philadelphia Murder Story: A Colonel Primrose Mystery

The Philadelphia. Murder Story

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by LESLIE FORD

If there was pressure on the editors to tell the story, in fact, it was probably brought by the Ladies’ Home Journal and the Country Gentleman, who’d got tired of trying to explain that it had nothing to do with them—though neither, I’m told, has ever admitted the authorship of that interoffice memorandum entitled “Bring Out Your Dead” that was put up on the Post doors on the sixth floor.

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“It’s all right,” he said. His face was flushed a little. “Just get it straight, though. Nobody ever smeared me. People were damned decent to me. And if Laurel made a mistake, she didn’t do it on purpose. If you’d stow this holier-than-thou business, you’d make fewer yourself. I think you’ve said plenty, and if I were you I’d go home.”

Mrs. Whitney was lying back on her yellow pillows.

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