5:25--Tracey Miles parks car at curb; walks up to the house, hangs
up hat in clothes closet and at (his estimate)
5:27--Miles enters living room, talks with Nita, who, as dummy, has
just laid down her cards at Table No. 2. Players: Karen Marshall,
Penny Crain, Carolyn Drake.
5:28--Nita leaves living room, goes to her bedroom to make up.
5:28-1/2--Lois Dunlap and Miles go into dining room, Miles to make
cocktails.
5:31--Judge Marshall enters living room, interrupts bridge game.
5:33--John C. Drake enters living room, having walked from Country
Club, which he says he left at 5:10, and which is only
three-quarters of a mile from the Selim house.
5:36--Karen finishes playing of hand, and Dexter Sprague and Janet
Raymond enter from front porch, proceeding into dining room.
5:37--Penny Crain finishes scoring, and Karen leaves room to tell
Nita the score.
5:38--Karen screams upon discovering the dead body at the
dressing-table.
Dundee laid aside the typed sheet and reached for another, the typing of
which was perfect, since Penny's efficient fingers had manipulated the
keys.
When he had telephoned to the office just before five o'clock Monday
afternoon to see if anything had come up, Dundee had learned from Penny
that Peter Dunlap had issued an informal call to "the crowd" for a
meeting at his home that evening.
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