Murder in Any Degree

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - One Sunday in March they had been marooned at the club Steingall the painter and Quinny the illustrator and having lunched late had bored themselves separately to their limits over the periodicals until preferring to bore each other they had gravitated together in easy arm-chairs before the big Renaissance fireplace. Steingall sunk in his collar from behind the black-rimmed spectacles which with their trailing ribbon of black gave a touch of Continental elegance to his cropped beard and colonel's mustaches watched without enthusiasm the three mammoth logs where occasional tiny flames gave forth an illusion of heat.