A nice, very short story (eight pages) but very obvious indeed, nowadays. Of course that's to be expected, crime stories hardly keep with the time, specially after the huge amount of books/series/movies on the subject. This is nicely written but not at all a surprise. John promised his wife to quit drinking, but he hasn't. When his wife goes out shopping, a girl rings the doorbell. She goes door-to-door to do market research or something like that. He is very keen on not wanting to open the door, but she (Betty) rings insistently so he opens but he resists for a couple of times and does his best not to let her in, until one day he fails himself and invites her in.
It doesn't take long and he jumps on her, at first trying to rape her, then to strangle her when she resists. Luckily the police come. She's a cop herself, and he is accused of having murdered a girl that had tried to sell door-to-door like Betty. He remembers her, and says so, adding "that's why I wanted to prevent Betty from coming in..."
A psychological crime story, well written. Of course he's arrested.
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