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_aStarrett, Vincent, _d1886-1974 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aMissing men |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from the April 25, 1925 issue of Short Stories magazine. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-07-11 | ||
| 508 | _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark | ||
| 520 | _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.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925 |
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| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories | ||
| 653 | _aChicago (Ill.) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMissing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aLavender, Jimmie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | ||
| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from the April 25, 1925 issue of Short Stories magazine. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76476 |
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