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The Case of the Strange Display

Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons · March 16, 1944 · 29 min · 4,246 words

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Our story opens in the shopping district of New York on Fifth Avenue during lunch hour. Two girls pick their way across the street to traffic. They're heading toward the show windows of the smart Morley department store, now celebrating its hundreds anniversary.

You know, Sally, we really should be getting back to the office. Please, we did lo me take a minute and I'm dying to see the new window. Oh you and your boyfriend. Hey look after that taxi I'm all right You know Jeff thought up this idea all by himself. So mr. Barton stole a credit as usual you and your boyfriend

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