Don't know, but if you are, someone could have put in a new hollow-core door which would carry sound nicely.

erika, I live in a 1929 building (built as a luxury building ... now fallen on hard times) and sound travels between my apartment and the hallway quite well. Also between apartments.

And if the building's been converted, doors will be flimsier. Unless they're in the vault, sound should travel quite well.

Yeah, my building is pre-war, and you can't hear anything between apartments through the walls, but you can always hear through the doors.

Just checking...mystery fans are hard-core(Represent!) as you know. If they caught me in a mistake like that, I'm a rookie for life.

Not always. John Dickson Carr once had a murderer use dry ice to kill a victim - mistaking frozen carbon dioxide for frozen carbon monoxide. A small block of dry ice in a sealed room, and as it evaporated in filled the room where the victim slept with carbon dioxide "the deadliest gas known to man".

ah ... The Case of the Constant Suicides!

And Toddson wins the no-prize.

um ... no-prize? the way things are going, that sums up my life.

From comic books. A no-prize is a good thing. Very strong form of recognition from an industry that did not give its editors enough money to give actual prizes. Of course I'm not Stan Lee, or any of the other great comics artists who gave those, so my No Prize does not mean quite as much as the original.

ah! thank you!