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100	1		_aDecker, Karl, _d1868-1941
245	1	4	_aThe framed fifty
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly April 6, 1929.
500			_aRelease date is 2026-05-10
508			_aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520			_aThe framed fifty by Karl Decker is a short crime story written in the early 20th century. Centered on a bartender’s prized “first dollar,” it explores sentiment, luck, and the sting of disillusion when a cherished token proves false. Mike O’Donnell, an old New York barkeep who relocates to Havana after Prohibition, treasures a fifty-dollar bill framed above his bar—the first note ever paid across his counter, gifted years earlier by the suave Red Walker on a stormy opening night. O’Donnell prospers and clings to the bill as a talisman of his success and identity, until an inconspicuous visitor—an American Secret Service man—asks to see it, rips open the frame, and stamps it “Counterfeit.” He explains it’s the work of a long-dead forger, with Red once serving as the passer of fake notes and now himself gone. O’Donnell is absolved of blame, but the revelation pierces his nostalgia, exposing the sentimental cornerstone of his career as a forgery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
653			_aShort stories
653			_aNew York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
653			_aBars (Drinking establishments) -- Fiction
653			_aHavana (Cuba) -- Fiction
830		0	_aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly April 6, 1929.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78650
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