Cry 'Woof'
Archie Goodwin on locks and listening:
It is always a temptation to monkey with locks, and one of the best ways to test ears is to enter someone’s castle uninvited and, while you are looking here and there for something interesting, listen for footsteps on the stairs or the sound of an elevator. If you don’t hear them in time your hearing is defective, and you should try some other line of work when you are out and around again.
— Rex Stout, Champagne for One
Archie is, of course, the leg man for noted private detective Nero Wolfe.
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