Sam Long's voice drifted up the stairs at the same time that they heard the door into the downstairs hallway creak shut.

He took the stairs three at a time and landed with a large thud in the downstairs hallway.

He was on the cell phone to the cops when he walked into the small bathroom off the downstairs hallway.

Only then did he let her into the downstairs hallway, quickly closing the door behind her.

A wooden staircase leads from the downstairs hallway to the third floor.

In the silent downstairs hallway the man bent again over his ring.

She hung the towel on the rack and stepped into the downstairs hallway.

She had gotten him aside in the downstairs hallway.

Tony was at work in his private study, a small room off the main downstairs hallway.

To end his own anxiety, he quickly flipped on the foyer light, and then the one in the downstairs hallway.