Thanksgiving 1954 Washington, D.C. Briarwood House is getting impatient. The body has been removed from Grace’s apartment and transported to the morgue; the police have tramped around taking pictures of everything; the witnesses have been rounded up in the kitchen—when on earth are things going to get interesting? This has not been at all like Dragnet, the house thinks disapprovingly. Sergeant Joe Friday would have had a theory by now, would have said, “Just the facts” at least once. (The house has become addicted to Dragnet since Pete started tuning in on Grace’s set last year.) But this
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