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Mason opened the door, said, “Ground floor, ladies and gentlemen. Department of frame-ups just ahead of you—separate cells, phony confessions, telling the daughter her mother’s confessed, telling the mother the daughter’s confessed, throwing in stool pigeons and detectives as cell mates, and all the usual police traps, right this way!”

Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Lazy Lover [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Gardner Case of the Lazy Lover ground floor all the usual police traps