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Constance recalled the last time someone had rung the doorbell at 891 Riverside Drive – the rarest of occurrences at the Pendergast mansion. The memory f that awful moment now hung in the room like a miasma. “But a bottle of wine as payment? Next you’ll be offering your services in exchange for a Shake Shack hamburger. “In a criminal investigation, there is an inverse relationship between the quality of evidence and the length of time it has been awaiting examination.” “For the love of God, Montressor!” (quoting Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” ) “First you called me a ‘dick.’ Now you’ve called mw a ‘prick.’ I commend yo on your poesy. But you seem to forget that a lady is present. Perhaps your mother should have employed the soap treatment more frequently to your rather orotund mouth.”