Word: hibben
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...