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Author of
"The Case of the Velvet Claws"
"The Case of the Howling Dog," etc.
The story thus far:
WILLIAM C. FOLEY hired me as his secretary because he liked my voice. Later I discovered that he judged people's character by their voices. On the very first day of my new job things began to happen. A man who said he was a private detective investigating the hit-and-run injury of Mr. Foley's former secretary forced his way into the office and demanded to see my employer. After Mr. Foley had gotten rid of him, another visitor came — Frank C. Padgham, who seemed to be a talent agent. I was called into the office while Mr. Foley dictated a long agreement between Padgham and two men named Carter Wright and Woodley Page. Mr. Foley instructed me to type the agreement and deliver it to a Wilshire address that night.
On my way to carry out his instructions I was almost run down by a car — and it didn't look like an accident, either. I was panic-stricken when I reached the house. It seemed completely deserted. Then, coming from upstairs, I heard a thumping noise. Investigating, I found Bruce Eaton, the radio and movie star, bound and gagged in a closet. I set him free, and under pretense of getting a drink, he slipped out of the house, leaving me alone. As I started to follow him, I picked up a safe-deposit key from the floor — and then, through an open door at the end of the hall, I saw a dead man slumped over a desk!
While I stood gaping, every light in the house went out, and I hurried downstairs. At the front door I met Mr. Padgham and told him what I'd seen. He
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She got to her feet and pointed angrily at him.
went into the dark house, telling me to get in his car and wait for him. Instead, I went to a nearby drug store and called Bruce Eaton's agent, telling him to give Eaton a message from the young woman who removed his gag — to call me at the office the next day. I returned to the house, to find Padgham and his car both gone, but Mr. Foley was there. I told him everything that had happened, except about Bruce Eaton and the key, and he advised me to go into the drug store and tell the clerk to notify the police of the mur
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