November 14, 1942. One of the great "perfect crime" stories appeared in the issue of
The New Yorker with this date. James Thurber wrote of Mr. Martin, one of his "Little Men" protagonists, finding his life overturned by a new arrival in his office: a woman named Mrs. Ulgine Barrows, a loud brassy slang-slinging force of nature who is destroying all the careful patterns of Mr. Martin's peaceful existance. So he decides to rub her out. "The term
rub out pleased him because it suggested nothing more than the correction of a error..."
I liked "The Catbird Seat" enough to make it the first entry in the book
Thurber on Crime. Read it and see why.
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