title: Murder Behind The Closet Door: The Wildwood Murder Mystery Ghost Story
author:  Christopher Pinto 
description: Become a Fan of Murder on Facebook! www.facebook.com/WildwoodMysteryNovel Christopher Pinto is the author/editor of Tiki Lounge Talk (http://tikiloungetalk.com), a web-lounge dedicated to remembering the kool stuff from the Atomic Age and beyond, from big band music and jazz to cocktails at the Tiki Bar. He's been writing for over 25 years, has had several plays produced, and has won awards for his creative efforts. During the 1990s he was producer/director of a highly successful traveling theater company in the Atlantic City area, StarDust Productions. A lover of all things retro, he enjoys working on his 1953 Chevy Belair Hot Rod, plays jazz tenor sax and clarinet, and is an avid collector of vintage memorabilia. Pinto currently lives in South Florida with his wife Colleen, four birds, two cats, a dog and a Tiki Bar. For more info visit www.stardustmysteries.com.
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  The Door of the Trap  
    
  
  
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  # The Door of the Trap
  
  
  ### Sherwood Anderson
  
  
  
  
  
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  WINIFRED WALKER understood some things clearly enough. She understood that
  when a man is put behind iron
  
  
  bars he is in prison. Marriage was marriage to her.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It was that to her husband Hugh Walker, too, as he found out. Still he didn't
  understand. It might have been better
  
  
  had he understood. Then he might at least have found himself. He didn't. After
  his marriage five or six years passed
  
  
  like shadows of wind-blown trees playing on a wall. He was in a drugged,
  silent state. In the morning and evening
  
  
  every day he saw his wife. Occasionally something happened within him and he
  kissed her. Three children were
  
  
  born. He taught mathematics in the little college at Union Valley, Illinois,
  and waited