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Название книги: Over My Dead Body
Автор(ы): Rex Stout
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Over-My-Dead-Body-159328.html
Chapter One
The bell rang and I went to the front and opened the door and there she was. I said good-morning."Pliz," she said, "I would like to see Misturr Nero Wolfe."Or you might have spelled it plihz or plizz or plihsz. However you spelled it, it wasn't Middle West or New England or Park Avenue or even East Side. It wasn't American, and naturally it irritated me a little. But I politely invited her in and conducted her to the office and got her a chair, and then extracted her name, which I had to ask her to spell."Mr Wolfe will be engaged until eleven o'clock," I told her, with a glance at the wall clock above my desk, which said ten-thirty. "I'm Archie Goodwin, his confidential secretary. If you'd like to save time by starting on me. "She shook her head and said she had plenty of time. I asked her if she would like a book or magazine, and she shook her head again, and I passed her up and resumed at my desk, where I was heading up a bunch of hybridizing cards for use upstairs. Five minutes later I
Название книги: Over My Dead Body
Автор(ы): Rex Stout
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Over-My-Dead-Body-159328.html
Chapter One
The bell rang and I went to the front and opened the door and there she was. I said good-morning."Pliz," she said, "I would like to see Misturr Nero Wolfe."Or you might have spelled it plihz or plizz or plihsz. However you spelled it, it wasn't Middle West or New England or Park Avenue or even East Side. It wasn't American, and naturally it irritated me a little. But I politely invited her in and conducted her to the office and got her a chair, and then extracted her name, which I had to ask her to spell."Mr Wolfe will be engaged until eleven o'clock," I told her, with a glance at the wall clock above my desk, which said ten-thirty. "I'm Archie Goodwin, his confidential secretary. If you'd like to save time by starting on me. "She shook her head and said she had plenty of time. I asked her if she would like a book or magazine, and she shook her head again, and I passed her up and resumed at my desk, where I was heading up a bunch of hybridizing cards for use upstairs. Five minutes later I
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