1948-xx-xx (047) Double Trouble

Box 13, with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. Care of Star Times? If you're interested in preventing a murder, come to 327 North Greeley Street in Edgemont.

It should take you only three hours by train to get here. But you must come at exactly 330, or it may be too late. The whole letter was typed. the signature at the bottom, Pat Kennedy. I didn't know if Pat Kennedy was a man or a woman, but as it turned out it didn't matter, even though I got there before 3.30.

And now back to Box 13 and Dan Holiday's newest adventure, Double Trouble. How long will you be gone this time, Mr. Holiday? Well, it's a little hard to tell, Susie. I think it depends on Pat Kennedy, whoever he or she is. I don't like letters that have only type signatures at the bottom.

Why not? Well, it always makes me think that someone else wrote it. And that's exactly what makes me think this may be very interesting. You mean you agree with me? Absolutely. But you're still going to Edgemont.

That's right, Susie. I'll never learn will I? Some day you'll get into trouble. What makes you think I haven't already? Well, don't put the light in the window for me, Susie I'll try to find my way around in the dark. So long.

Well whoever wrote that letter was right. The train left me on Edgemont's station platform exactly three hours after I left Susie. An attack she left me in front of 327 Greeley Street at 320, ten minutes before deadline. It was an apartment house I walked into the lobby. A not-too-interested clerk looked up as I walked over to him.