…An EMERALD NECKLACE —- unusually fine and built around the twenty-five carat GHORSHKI EMERALD…An inexpensive, plain gold WEDDING BAND…A crumpled piece of WRAPPING PAPER with some figures and a total on it…A basement STAIRWAY that is always kept locked…An ADDRESS in the red-light district of New Orleans…A very modern AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM…A very old-fashioned GAS HEATING SYSTEM…A SAFE in the bedroom of an extremely wealthy and careful man…A CHAUFFEUR with a college education…A GAME of 4-5-6…A beautiful GIRL in green…A red-headed private DETECTIVE who knows most of the answers and soon finds out the rest.
[1944]