Wake Up With a Stranger

Recipe for a backyard cookout: one guest skewered by another.

He looked at her, at her fine grave face and too elegant gestures. He thought tiredly that this one was nearly gone, that she would go on drinking too much gin and sleeping in too many beds, that she would remember nothing between the beds and the bottles.

The worst of it was that he liked her. She had a face he would remember. And for a long time he would think of her and wonder just what had become of her, whether she was alive or dead...

Our second volume of Fletcher Flora’s crime and mystery stories collects 20 more tales by the classic author. Enjoy!