Misdirection Of Perception: Sorry Wrong Number By Lucille Fletcher

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Misdirection of Perception “Sorry Wrong Number” is a dramatic playwright written by Lucille Fletcher. This story is about at an invalid woman named Mrs. Stevenson, who lives in an upstairs bedroom in New York cared for by her husband, Mr. Stevenson and her maid, Eloise. Late one evening while Mrs. Stevenson was alone in the house, trying to get a hold of her husband, she was cut off and overheard the most dreadful thing she has ever heard in her life. While listening to the conversation, Mrs. Stevenson hears the plot of a murder planning to kill an innocent woman at 11:15! Desperate to save this woman, she tries to get someone to help her like the operator, who couldn't retrace the call and Sergeant Duffy who didn't take her seriously. Later

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