5 Detective Novels Magazine — page 89: what you’re looking at

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It didn’t seem possible that anyone could be as dumb as— THE DAME FROM CHICAGO OSEPH MALIK was only mildly in- store was small, well kept, but located terested when, through the small inconspicuously on a side street where glass pane in his private office, he saw’ it did only a modest business. Legiti- . the girl come through the front door mate business, that is. But Malik was of his neat little jewelry store and ap- doing a most satisfactory business in proach his clerk at one of the counters. other and devious ways. The girl was pretty but she was a bit Joseph Malik was a fence, although over-dressed and she swaggered a little. not an ordinary fence. He was wily and At the best she would probably buy no cautious in his dealings with the under- more than a ten-buck gaudy bracelet. world. He had found that it was much Joseph Malik wasn’t interested in ten- safer to do business with a few big-time buck sales or, in fact, in any of the petty crooks who, like himself, were interested sales that were made in his store. His only in big stakes.. Right now he was by BENTON BRADEN .,. ae The girl’s hand came up with a gun in it comiclooolkks