broad-voweled

Updated: June 23, 2025

One of the talkers, he soon found, was a Supreme Court judge on his vacation, equable and deliberative in his occasional query or view or criticism; another was apparently a secret agent from the office of the New York district-attorney, still another two were either Scotland Yard men or members of some continental detective bureau this Durkin assumed from their broad-voweled English voices and their seemingly intimate knowledge of European criminal procedure.

Arthur Stringer - Phantom Wires: A Novel