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MURDER<br />
MYSTERY<br />
By FREDERICK RUTLEDGE<br />
Beginning a vivid, fast-moving<br />
novel of love, hatred and<br />
revenge - an emotional hurricane<br />
which leaves in its wake -<br />
death at a radio broadcast!<br />
ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK GODWIN<br />
SIDNEY ABBOTT opened the stage door and walked<br />
into the theater, for the first time in her life hating<br />
the world. The afternoon heat was flung at her in<br />
dazzling waves from the sky, the street, the baked walls<br />
of the building, wrapping her in a heavy sodden blanket.<br />
If it had been any other day, she would have stayed in<br />
her apartment sitting close to the window in her coolest<br />
pajamas. If only tonight she weren't going to sing on<br />
radio's new fall program, Night Club Revue.<br />
If only it<br />
didn't mean so much -this first chance to sing over a network<br />
of radio stations reaching from coast to coast.<br />
Her feet scuffed on the carpeted hallway. It was even<br />
16<br />
hotter in here than it was on the street. Not a breath of<br />
air stirred as she approached the stage. She saw with dismay<br />
that the orchestra had already left. Now she couldn't<br />
rehearse her song. She needn't have come after all<br />
"Oh damn!" she exclaimed, looking helplessly about.<br />
Two others in the cast of Night Club Revue were on the<br />
stage. They were arguing, their voices rising and falling in<br />
the empty theater. Sidney sat down out of sight of them<br />
on the backstage stairs which led to the dressing rooms on<br />
the floor above.<br />
She hated arguments with nothing free about them, with<br />
no flare of anger openly expressed, only emotions held
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