The Bughouse Affair: A Carpenter And Quincannon Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
After Kleinhoffer had finished with him, the newspapermen had descended—on him but not on the Englishman, who managed to slip away unnoticed. Quincannon had taken pains to keep Holmes well in the background; in his comments to the reporters, he referred to him as a “temporary operative” and an “underling.” He donned his nightshirt and crawled into bed, but the night’s jumbled events plagued his mind and refused to let him sleep. At length he lit his bedside lamp, picked up a copy of Walt Whitman’s Sea-Drift. Usually Whitman, or Emily Dickinson or James Lowell, freed his brain of clutter and allowed him to relax, but not tonight. He switched reading matter to Drunkards and Curs: The Truth About Demon Rum. He and Sabina had once been hired by the True Christian Temperance Society to catch an embezzler, and this had led him to his second collecting interest: temperance tracts, whose highly inflammatory rhetoric he found amusing. Drunkards and Curs did the trick. Before the end of one turgid chapter he was sound asleep.
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