Murder On The Thirty-First Floor - Plot & Excerpts
One hundred and forty-four of them, stacked in four piles of thirty-six. Inspector Jensen drank another cup of bicarbonate of soda and loosened his belt a notch further. Then he sat down at his desk and started to read. The magazines varied somewhat in design, format and number of pages. Some of them were printed on glossy paper, others not. A comparison showed that this seemed to be the determining factor in the price. They all had brightly coloured cover pictures, of cowboy heroes, the super-successful, members of the royal family, popular singers, famous politicians, children and animals. The children and animals were often in the same picture, in various combinations: little girls with kittens; little blond-haired boys with puppies; little boys with very big dogs; and older, almost fully grown girls with very small cats. The people in the cover pictures were attractive and blue-eyed. They had smooth, friendly faces, even the children and animals. When he got out his magnifying glass and studied the pictures more closely, he noticed that the faces had some strangely lifeless areas, as if something had been erased from the photographs; warts for example, or blackheads or bruises.
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