Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Final Deduction by Rex Stout

Page 33:

"You haven't reported."

"I reported all you said you wanted."

"That's subdolous. Let him in."

As I went to the front I was making a mental note not to look up "subdolous." That trick of his, closing an argument by using a word he knew damn well I had never heard, was probably subdolous.

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