(#23) Mystery of the Tolling Bell
“Drew about the woman in the taxi.“Are you sure she had on Mon Coeur perfume?” the young detective asked her father.“Positive.”Nancy asked him to describe the woman again. The lawyer said he had not paid much attention to her, but recalled she was dark, had rather large features, and wore her hair so it covered a good part of her face.“She could have been Madame,” Nancy said excitedly. “Dad, you thought those Mon Coeur men in New York might have given you a slow-acting drug. Perhaps Madame was t...heir accomplice.”“You’re probably right,” her father agreed.“Maybe,” Nancy said, “you weren’t drugged in New York but by the woman in the taxi.”“But how?”“With the perfume.”“You mean the woman may have mixed that sweet-smelling perfume with something to drug me?”“Yes.”At that moment an automobile horn began to toot and shouts of “Nancy! Ned!” reached their ears.“You’d better go along,” the lawyer urged. “I’ll talk to you in the morning.”For several hours Nancy enjoyed the music and dancing at the Candleton Yacht Club.MoreLess
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