02540cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324500160014726400510016330000470021433600260026133700260028733800360031349000700034950000310041950800300045052013340048053400650181465300340187965300300191365300480194365300550199183000700204685600430211699900190215976476UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aStarrett, Vincent,d1886-197410aMissing men 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the April 25, 1925 issue of Short Stories magazine.  aRelease date is 2025-07-11  aRoger Frank and Sue Clark  a"Missing men by Vincent Starrett" is a detective short story written in the early 20th century. It follows the cool-headed sleuth Lavender as he probes a spate of puzzling disappearances in Chicago. The likely topic is a web of vanishing men tied to the theatre, stage identities, and a family secret that has been carefully hidden.  When a picture broker named Peter Vanderdonck, a popular comedian named Charles Merritt, and finally the wealthy Cyril Minor all seem to vanish, Lavender pieces together odd clues: a nearly unused office, greasepaint traces at a washstand, a safe, and a newspaper note about actress Sidney Kane. He deduces that Merritt and Vanderdonck are the same person—and then that Minor is both of them, living a double (and triple) life to avoid publicity while secretly reunited with his former wife, Sidney Kane. A suspicious telegram signed “Father” instead of “Dad” sends Lavender and Minor’s daughter, Shirley, to Kane’s suburban home, where the truth emerges: Kane is Shirley’s mother; she and Minor have remarried, and Minor—struck ill—has been convalescing there under the cover story of an “invalid brother.” The disappearances are thus revealed as a theatrical masquerade rather than crime, ending in a family reconciliation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925  aDetective and mystery stories  aChicago (Ill.) -- Fiction  aMissing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction  aLavender, Jimmie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction 0aProduced from the April 25, 1925 issue of Short Stories magazine.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76476  c117201d117201