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    Lease to Doomsday
    Lease to Doomsday
    Lease to Doomsday
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    Lease to Doomsday

    By Virgil Finlay and Lee Archer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Lease to Doomsday - Virgil Finlay

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lease to Doomsday, by Lee Archer

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      Title: Lease to Doomsday

      Author: Lee Archer

      Illustrator: Virgil Finlay

      Release Date: December 2, 2008 [EBook #27392]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEASE TO DOOMSDAY ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

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      The twins were a rare team indeed. They wanted to build a printing plant on a garbage dump. When Muldoon asked them why, their answer was entirely logical:

      Because we live here.

      LEASE

      TO

      DOOMSDAY

      By LEE ARCHER

      It was the lack of sense in the ad that made him go back to it again. He was having his breakfast coffee in the cafeteria next to the midtown hotel where he lived. The classified section of the New York Times was spread before him.

      WANTED: Live wire Real Estate broker—No selling—30-40. Room 657 Silvers Building—9-12 Monday morning.

      The ad made no sense for several reasons. One: you just don't go around advertising for brokers with four pages of them in the classified phone book. Two: how can one be a live wire broker, without having to sell? Kevin Muldoon shook his head. Just no damn sense. The Silvers Building—H'm! Not too far off. He looked at his strap watch. Fifteen minutes of nine. He could walk it in that time.

      Don't be a fool, he said to himself. It's obviously a come-on of some kind.

      He got up, paid the check and went out. It wasn't till he was on Third Ave. that he was conscious he had started to go crosstown when his office was in the opposite direction. He smiled wryly. Might as well investigate, he thought. Can't do any harm, and it won't take long.

      There were four others waiting in the small anteroom. The outer door bore no legend other than the room number, and the inner door was blank altogether. Muldoon made a quick appraisal of those waiting. Three were obviously past middle-age, the fourth about Muldoon's age. The inner door opened and Muldoon looked up. A tall man came out first, a man in his early sixties, perhaps. Immediately behind him came a slightly shorter man, but very heavy and with a head that was bald as a billiard

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