02349cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500270014426400510017130000470022233600260026933700260029533800360032149000560035750000310041350801070044452011420055153400750169365300180176865300230178665300260180965300250183570000280186083000560188885600430194476713UtSlPG20260610134757.0mcr n260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aDe Bra, Lemuel,d1884-195410aBlue eyes and diamonds 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 9 1929.  aRelease date is 2025-08-21  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net  a"Blue eyes and diamonds by Lemuel De Bra" is a short crime caper written in the late 1920s. It centers on a society wife''s risky scheme to fake a jewel robbery to cover her gambling losses, entangling a straight-arrow detective and her well-meaning husband in a clever, lighthearted twist on theft and trust.  Betty Danford, having pawned her diamond wedding necklace and replaced it with paste, begs Detective Harry Milholland—an old suitor—to arrange a staged burglary to “steal” the fake and keep her secret. Her plan unravels when her husband, Chester, reveals he has quietly redeemed the real necklace and hidden it back in her dressing table. Panicked, Betty rushes to stop the planned theft, only to witness what looks like a thief flinging the necklace into the river. The sting is then revealed: Harry had told Chester, they orchestrated a fake confrontation, and the tossed necklace was only the paste copy. With the truth out and the real diamonds safe, Betty faces a gentle moral reckoning, reconciles with her husband, and the tale ends on a playful, affectionate note. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929  aShort stories  aSpouses -- Fiction  aDetectives -- Fiction  aNecklaces -- Fiction1 aStahr, Paul,d1883-1953 0aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 9 1929.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76713