"027 (B020) - The Secret in the Sky (1935-05) - Lester Dent.XT" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

"Was that Willard Spanner's voice, or would you know it?" Monk demanded.



"I would know his voice." Doc replied. "And that was, unquestionably, Willard Spanner."



"Speaking from San Francisco?" Monk grunted incredulously.



"We will see." Doc Savage made a call, checking with the telephone people, then hung up and advised, "The call came from San Francisco, all right. Willard Spanner appears to have been seized while be was in the booth making the call."



Monk picked the pig, Habeas, up by one oversize ear - a treatment the shote seemed not to mind.



"Then the dead man here in New York is not Willard Spanner," declared the simian chemist. "Nobody goes from Frisco to New York in not much more than two hours.



"We will see about that," Doc told him.



"How?"



"By visiting the New York morgue where the dead man was taken."



Monk nodded. "How about Ham?"



"We will leave him a note," Doc said.





APPARENTLY, it had not occurred to any one in authority on the New York civic scene that the surroundings of the dead were of aesthetic value, for the morgue building was a structure which nearly attained the ultimate in shoddiness.