The Scarlet Letters (2013)
“She was phoning, she told Ellery, to call off their “tentative lunch date.” Dirk had his plot pretty well organized and he was starting to dictate manuscript. He planned to work right through the day.
“Wonderful,” said Ellery. “Let me talk to him, Nikki.”
Dirk sounded energetic. “Hi, Ellery! I think I’ve hit pay dirt in this one. I hope you don’t mind Nikki’s breaking your date.”
“Think nothing of it. I understand you’re really on fire, Dirk.”
“Don’t hex me, son. I have to nurse these spells.” Dirk laughed.
“How true,” mourned Ellery; and he hung up and ran.
At a few minutes past noon Ellery’s cab was cruising through Beekman Place for the third time when he saw Martha Lawrence come out of the apartment house and step into a taxi waiting at the curb. She was dressed in a mousy brown suit with black accessories and a large-brimmed black hat with a thick-meshed nose veil. The hat overshadowed her face.
Martha’s cab drove west to Park Avenue and stopped before the entrance of the Marguery.
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