Chapter-ette One: An Unlikely Meeting
It was a weekday, that much I knew for sure by all the hustle and bustle of lunchtime in the city. I didn’t have a hangover, so it was at least Tuesday. And I hadn’t started drinking yet, so it probably wasn’t Friday. But I couldn’t be sure, because I hadn’t had a case in a while and all the days had started to blur together.
What I did know is that I would normally have been annoyed if some dame had barged into my office like she did. But like I said, I needed a paying job and I could tell she was no dame.
“Mr. Spade, my name is Miss Marple and I am here to hire your services to find Dr. Cadwell.”