"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."
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War in Heaven (1930), Ch. 1, first sentence
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Charles Williams
Charles Walter Stansby Williams (20 September 1886 – 15 May 1945) was a British poet, novelist, playwright, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings.
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