Room With A Clue (Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
Phoebe said, picking up her cup to examine it, as if she hoped to find more brandy in it. “Well, I can tell you that.” Mrs. Chubb rubbed her palms together, wishing she could repeat the sensational story to the ladies at the next church social. They’d be all agog, they would, and she’d be the center of attention. They were always asking her about the goings-on at the Pennyfoot. Most of the time she’d had to keep her mouth shut. There were some things that she wouldn’t tell her own mother. She did wonder how madam was going to keep this one a secret. A death wasn’t exactly the same thing as what went on behind the closed doors of the boudoirs. Maybe she’d get the chance to tell about it after all. She started when Phoebe said, “So, please, do tell me. I would really like to know.” “It was Ethel. Countess Duxbury spilt a cup of tea all over the bed linens, and Ethel went to fetch clean ones. She was on her way out, and she says the snake lifted his head from the basket.”
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