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In the offices of the Homicide Bureau of the Detective Division of the New York Police Department, on the third floor of the police headquarters building in Centre Street, there is a large steel filing cabinet; and within it, among thousands of others of its kind, there reposes a small green index card on which is typed: "ODELL, MARGARET. 184 West 71st Street. Sept. 10. Murder: Strangled about 11 P.M. Apartment ransacked. Jewelry stolen. Body found by Amy Gibson, maid."
Language: English
Published in: 1927
Word count: 82,335 words (≈ about 5 hours)
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Philo Vance was a fictional American detective who appeared in twelve novels written by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. For a few decades he...