Sliver Page #4

I read a few pages of one of them.

You read both of them.

You couldn't put them down.

I'm right, aren't l? Tell me I'm right.

You're wrong.

What?

You don't like sex and violence?

It sells, you know.

It buys ranches in Montana, I'm told.

You've been checking on me. I like that.

- Thank you.

- For what?

For stopping.

Now, how about gossip?

About James Dean, for instance.

Doesn't that sell?

You've been checking on me.

I don't like that.

I hear you're very good at the tell-alls.

I guess that comes

from being married to a very boring guy.

You just like all the juicy talk.

- F*** you.

- Would you like to?

I can try and make myself available.

Hey, look...

come on, I'm a writer.

People tell me their secrets...

and I just take notes.

Like Truman Capote.

- You could tell me your secrets.

- I don't have any secrets.

Sure you do.

What secrets do I have?

I'd never tell.

Did you send me the telescope?

- Telescope?

- Yeah.

Why would I send you a telescope?

Hey.

I can't keep up with you.

No, you can't.

Taxi!

Excuse me, Officers, let her through,

please. She lives here. Come on.

Come on, Miss Norris. Come on.

- Do you live here?

- Did you know Mr. Hale?

How long have you lived

in this apartment?

How do you feel

about all these accidents?

Yes, he was a lecturer at NYU.

He doesn't seem to have had

any family. That's about all I know.

Miss? Miss?

- Are you a resident here?

- Yeah. Carla Norris...

- 20-B.

- 20-B?

- What happened?

- The guy in 23-B...

the professor, Gus Hale...

apparently he fell in the shower

and broke his neck.

Did you know Mr. Hale?

- I talked to him.

- What about?

Well, not that much, really.

We talked about...

that he was going to Japan.

- We talked about Naomi Singer.

- What did he say about Naomi Singer?

That they were friends, and...

that I look like her.

You do.

I don't remember

giving you an invitation.

I have a nose

for smelling parties in progress.

Also, a bottle of Dom Perignon.

Come on in, honey. I like you already.

- You hold and I'll pop.

- Yeah.

Jack Landsford,

I'd like to introduce you...

to Judy, of course.

Hi. Remember me?

We met in the doorway?

- And Peter.

- Hi. How are you?

- Pete. Hey, Alex.

- Jack, how are you?

- Good. How you been?

- And you know Vida.

- Hi, I'm Vida Warren.

- Hello. Jack Landsford.

I'm sorry.

I thought you two knew each other.

Say "cheese".

Jesus!

- Oh, hey.

- Hello. Here you go.

- Is this Dom Perignon, too?

- California red.

Oh. I'm sorry.

Now, this is very interesting.

It looks like Lalique, but it's not.

It's a copy.

You're right about that, Alex.

Nothing in the haunted house

is what it appears to be.

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