rath, you summed it up well. I can still hear the sound after you dialed, and the "dialer" moved back into the correct position........after each number........
Why does this remind me of my father telling me how many miles he walked to school in the snow? Of course what I didn't realize until years later was he walked on plowed streets...lol
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956