different-size

Updated: August 8, 2026

Because they would have found that the bullet which killed him was fired out of a forty-five-seventy shell, and Dudley Stackpole had done all of the shooting he done with a thirty-eight caliber pistol, which would throw a different-size bullet. But they never thought to do so." Question by the physician, Doctor Davis: "You mean to say that no autopsy was performed upon the body of the deceased?"

- The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story