The Late Night Show is a short story covered in the book Secrets by Ruskin Bond. As the story opens, the author puts forward various reasons for murdering people. Among all, insanity is also one of the reasons. However, greed is the topmost reason. The narrator is a schoolboy, after having finished his school, he is staying with his mother in the Green Hotel, and she is a manager there. In Dehradun, Odeon cinema hall is popular for American and British movies in the 1940s. The boy develops a good rapport with the cinema hall’s usher cum ticket checker. For this reason, the usher lets him slip in every night for the movie without a ticket. To return the favour, the boy brings a bottle of beer for him, because at the hotel he has a good rapport with the bartender, Melaram. Since he goes to Odeon every night, he develops a good sense of its interiors and the kind of public that comes there. One person intrigues him. He comes there quite often wearing suit and coat and a hat on h...
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