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No Way Out by h. A. Ripley. On a battered desk in

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the small dark room lay a penciled
note in handwriting resembling that of the dead

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man. Dear John, you know
the trouble I'm in. There's only one

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way out and I'm taking it.
You're my pal and we'll understand. Good

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luck, Signed Paul. The only
other furniture consisted of the chair in which

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Paul Morrow had been found with his
throat cut, a bed, and a

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high ornate an apparently brand new waste
basket. It had been definitely established that

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the dead man had not left the
room during the twenty four hours before he

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was discovered. Finishing his examinations of
the contents of the dead man's two twenty

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dollar bills, a cheap watch,
and an expensive wallet in which there was

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a picture of a beautiful woman,
Fortney turned his attention to the meager inventory

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of the room. That's all we
can find, said Inspector Kelly, indicating

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a dictionary, scraps of a letter
in a feminine handwriting found in the ornate

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waste basket, a pen, some
cheap stationery, a few clothes, pipe

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and tobacco, and a bloody razor. Sharp knife certainly has all the appearances

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of suicide. He continued, This
door was locked and no one could have

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left by the window. What do
you make of it? Fortney? The

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professor didn't reply at once. He
picked up the photograph, studied it a

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moment, and then, with a
slow searching look around the small room,

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said, better try to piece those
bits of letter together. This isn't suicide,

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it's murder. I believe you are
right, exclaimed Kelly, with dawning

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comprehension number thirty three No Way Out. The note was written with pencil,

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yet there was no pencil found in
the room. Apparently the murderer wrote the

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note to resemble the dead man's handwriting, and through force of habit, put

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it in his pocket. Men are
men the best. Sometimes forget Shakespeare.

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The end of No Way Out by
H. A. Ripley