{"id":8432,"date":"2021-04-27T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8432"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:20:52","slug":"356h-christie-like-mystery-solved-by-time-required-to-dial-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/356h-christie-like-mystery-solved-by-time-required-to-dial-phone-number\/","title":{"rendered":"356H: Christie-like mystery, solved by time required to dial phone number"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><tt class=\"letterText\">I was sure this was a Tuppence &amp; Tommy book (Christie), but it's not -- and I just finished reading all her books again. No luck; it's not one of hers! This mystery hinges on the time it takes (used to take) to dial a phone number -- the way a 9 on a rotary phone took longer to rotate back, when you dialed, than, say, a 2 would. Someone heard a number being dialed in the next room, at the beginning of the book, and realizes much later the reported phone number had to have been a lie -- didn't fit the sounds actually heard. I read this book around 1975, and it was old then. Thank you!! <\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sure this was a Tuppence &amp; Tommy book (Christie), but it&#8217;s not &#8212; and I just finished reading all her books again. No luck; it&#8217;s not one of hers! This mystery hinges on the time it takes (used to take) to dial a phone number &#8212; the way a 9 on a rotary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}