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After-Dinner Story – Six men were trapped in an elevator after a terrifying accident. But that can't explain how, by the time they are rescued, one of them has been shot to death.
After-Dinner Story is a terrific collection of six short stories by the master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. Everything from revenge for an unsolved murder, to a man convalescing who believes a man has murdered his wife but can’t get anyone to believe him, to pyromania, and a writer whose story eerily resembles an actual murder, make up a ...
Feb 12, 2023 · A man whose son was murdered in a tragic elevator crash a year before invites the survivors to dinner in hopes of exposing the killer. He says he knows who the killer is but can’t prove it, so poisoned that man’s dinner... and put the antidote on the table within reach of all of the guests.
After-Dinner Story is a terrific collection of short stories by the master of suspense, Cornell Woolrich. Everything from revenge for an unsolved murder, to a man convalescing who believes a man has murdered his wife but can’t get anyone to believe him, to pyromania, and a writer whose story eerily resembles an actual murder, make up a ...
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Apr 26, 2021 · After-Dinner Story - Six men were trapped in an elevator after a terrifying accident. ... The death is labelled as a suicide until, a year later, the murdered man's father invites...
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Sep 17, 2020 · after-dinner story MacKenzie got on the elevator at the thirteenth floor. He was a water-filter salesman and had stopped in at his home office to make out his accounts before going home for the day.
Jan 1, 2003 · Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge.
