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On Secret Service

by William Nelson Taft

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Free
Language
en
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Project Gutenberg

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Book from Project Gutenberg: On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government Agents A flash in the night -- The mint mystery -- The Ypiranga case -- The clue on shelf 45 -- Phyllis Dodge, smuggler extraordinary -- A matter of record -- The secret still -- The taxicab tangle -- A match for the government -- The girl at the switchboard -- "Lost: $100,000!" -- "The double code" -- The trail of the white mice -- Wah Lee and the flower of heaven -- The man with three wives -- After seven years -- The poison-pen puzzle -- Thirty thousand yards of silk -- The clue in the classified column -- In the shadow of the capitol -- A million-dollar quarter -- "The looting of the C.T.C." -- The case of Mrs. Armitage -- Five inches of death.

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