Are you home?” Djuna put one finger over his lips to warn Bobby and then quickly slipped Miss Annie’s Bible back on the shelf where she always kept it. “We’re in here, Miss Annie,” he called. “I do declare!” Miss Annie said as she appeared in the doorway, and Djuna rose, respectfully, from the chair in which he was sitting. Bobby was already standing. “I went over to Ned Pindler’s store to get a couple of things almost an hour ago. It only took me a few minutes to get them, but just when I was leaving, Grace, Ned’s wife, came down the stairs from the apartment over the store where they live and she —” “Pounced on you and talked your ear off!” Djuna interrupted to say. “That’s just what she did!” Miss Annie said with a sigh. “I like Grace. She’s a sweet, generous person, but how she can talk! Why, she never even seems to take a breath. She told me everything about everyone within fifteen miles of here. You just can’t get away from her! She’s an awful gossip, but I will say she isn’t malicious.”
What do You think about The Blue Herring Mystery (1954)?
