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“The performance took place one midsummer night against a backdrop of flooding rain, thunder, and lightning; power failures darkened some buildings in the Central Park area; and, of course, the Athenia Apartments was one of them. So Modesta even got to play her big scene by the light of candles, a surefire touch.
Ellery was not surprised. Modesta Ryan specialized in melodrama. Everything she touched went off like a rocket. She could not walk her dog without landing on the front page. Her last pet had broken his leash on Fifth Avenue and been run over by a car carrying the ambassador of an Iron Curtain country.
Modesta was spectacularly unlucky in love. She had never married. The men she wanted always seemed to prefer lisping ingénues or hat-check girls, and those who wanted her she could not stand. Her suitors ran to hand-kissers, cigaret-holder smokers, jodhpur-wearers, and gloomy college boys with mother fixations.
But suddenly, there he was. It was too impossibly wonderful. There he... was—all three of him.MoreLess
Ellery was not surprised. Modesta Ryan specialized in melodrama. Everything she touched went off like a rocket. She could not walk her dog without landing on the front page. Her last pet had broken his leash on Fifth Avenue and been run over by a car carrying the ambassador of an Iron Curtain country.
Modesta was spectacularly unlucky in love. She had never married. The men she wanted always seemed to prefer lisping ingénues or hat-check girls, and those who wanted her she could not stand. Her suitors ran to hand-kissers, cigaret-holder smokers, jodhpur-wearers, and gloomy college boys with mother fixations.
But suddenly, there he was. It was too impossibly wonderful. There he... was—all three of him.MoreLess
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