A man and his wife see a man in a chair that's turned away from them. The husband walks around the desk and turns the chair 90 degrees to see that the man has been shot. The wife gasps, but she couldn't see that from where she's standing.
A character states that Ernest Hemingway was so tall he used the top of a refrigerator as a writing desk, but it was not Hemingway who was known for that, it was 6'6" Thomas Wolfe.