Beginning with a Bash

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor. Beginning with a Bash

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CHAPTER 1

The young man darted into the open vestibule, flattened himself against the wall, and strained his ears to catch the sound that had almost become a part of him in the last breathless hour—the eternal padding thud of broad official heels.

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“I can’t help you much, either,” Dot spoke up. “I’ve just taken over the place, and there’s no catalogue. But I’d be glad to—”

“Damned unbusinesslike way to run a bookstore,” the red-faced man commented rudely. “Where’s my ‘Transcript’? I had a ‘Transcript’ when I came in here. Where is it? Who stole my ‘Transcript’?”

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