4 - Stranger Room: Ike Schwartz Mystery 4
“Ike intended to correct the anachronism perched on Ruth’s mantle, a surprise he would spring that night.
“Well, good afternoon, Sheriff. Is this a social call or did my husband, the lawyer, rat me out for running a numbers racket in my back room?”
“I need a clock.”
“What sort of clock?”
“Something suitable for display in a neo-Georgian office.”
“I have some very nice shelf clocks, two cabinet clocks—one grandfather and one grandmother, a—”
“Show me a shelf clock. It has to sit on a mantelpiece....”
Betsy led him through a circuitous path around tables, wardrobes, and cabinets filled with chinaware and miscellaneous bric-a-brac, to a small space where several clocks of various sizes and shapes competed for space on a drop-leaf walnut dining table. She pointed to a clock in the middle.
“That one is a Chauncey Jerome, I think. At least that’s what it says on the inside of the case, but I can’t be sure. The works might have been swapped out. These are brass and the early Jeromes had wooden movements.”MoreLess
“Well, good afternoon, Sheriff. Is this a social call or did my husband, the lawyer, rat me out for running a numbers racket in my back room?”
“I need a clock.”
“What sort of clock?”
“Something suitable for display in a neo-Georgian office.”
“I have some very nice shelf clocks, two cabinet clocks—one grandfather and one grandmother, a—”
“Show me a shelf clock. It has to sit on a mantelpiece....”
Betsy led him through a circuitous path around tables, wardrobes, and cabinets filled with chinaware and miscellaneous bric-a-brac, to a small space where several clocks of various sizes and shapes competed for space on a drop-leaf walnut dining table. She pointed to a clock in the middle.
“That one is a Chauncey Jerome, I think. At least that’s what it says on the inside of the case, but I can’t be sure. The works might have been swapped out. These are brass and the early Jeromes had wooden movements.”MoreLess
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