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...setup is classic. "The lady's remains repose on my bathroom floor," Attorney Peter Hibben tells us, "in my own locked, barred, closed-circuit-TV-guarded apartment." The body is costumed like the leading light of a Belle Epoque bordello. Carmina Burana swells in from the living-room phonograph. The girl has been shot. The attorney recognizes the gun, a six-shot Smith & Wesson K38 Heavy Masterpiece. He does not recognize the girl...
...Hibben sacks his seamy past for a clue to her identity, or any inkling of how she got into his apartment and his life. His exwife, his son, his parents, even his psychiatrist-all appear to Hibben in his delirium, prodding him inexorably toward the unpleasant Krafft-Ebing revelation concealed behind that coy yellow band. In the denouement there are traces both of Psycho and the Roger Ackroyd device: Are you sure you should trust the narrator? But Ellin conceals his key surprise in a phonetic note written by a distracted Mexican housemaid: Noscool sonic comic loc. Work that...
...morning "quiet times" and their public confessions of sins. The four tenets of Frank Buchman's version of Oxford Group Christianity were "absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love," and so much absolutism was bound occasionally to end in tears; at Princeton, for instance, President John Hibben summarily banned Frank Buchman from the campus...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...