Room 312

Room 312Charles Shelton had been a desk clerk at the Hotel Madison for almost 30 years. He had watched it deteriorate from one of the finer hotels in the city to its present condition, just a shade better than a flophouse.Shelton seldom thought about the good years. He was not one to live in the past. He lived from day to day, satisfied to sit behind the registration desk, reading his detective magazines and watching people come and go.Sam Webster owned the Hotel Madison. He was over 60, had no...