phone-booth

Updated: May 13, 2025

He ducked into a phone-booth and called the newspaper, keeping his eye on both entrances to the store. It seemed to take forever to locate the proper man there, but finally he had his connection. "Meinzer," the voice said, with a curious doubtfulness. "Oh, yeah. Mister, that story's dead! Call up...." The telephone melted slowly, dropping into a little cold puddle on the floor!

Lester Del Rey - Pursuit

Then he ordered lunch, and, while waiting for it, went into a phone-booth and dialed the number of Stephen Gresham's office in New Belfast. "I'd hoped to catch you before you left for lunch," he said, when the lawyer answered. "There's been a new development in the Fleming business." He had decided to follow the same line as with Karen Lawrence.

H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom