Today's Reading: 13 January 2024

 

The Swifts: A dictionary of scoundrels by Beth Lincoln. (library hardcover and Libby audiobook). 340 pgs. 

First line: It was a bright , well-dressed morning in early May, and the Swifts were in the middle of a funeral.

The Traitor (short story) by W. Somerset Maugham. (kindle and Audible audiobook). 

First line: When Asenden, given charge of a number of spies working from Switzerland, was first sent there, R, wishing him to see the sort of report that he would be required to maintain, handed him the communications, a sheaf of typewritten documents, of a man known in the secret service as Gustav.

At Barnes & Noble Brick, NJ and home Galloway NJ.