THE CUP AND THE LIP

Any one of the fringe literati surrounding elderly ill novelist Braile in his great gray house in a small town might have been responsible for his disappearance, for the charge that he was being poisoned, and for the inexplicable murder of a visiting admirer. Journalist Harkness lingers overlong among some tiresome people but comes up with a crackling solution. For Ferrars, half-'n-half.