The Mysterious Image by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene [Keene, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The next morning, Nancy slept in later than usual. As she was eating breakfast, Chief McGinnis called from police headquarters. “We’ve got some feedback from the taxicab companies,” he reported.

“Oh, yes,” Nancy said eagerly. “Did any of the drivers remember a passenger who resembled Clare Grant?”

“No. You remember you asked about a woman being picked up either on Possum Road or somewhere on the outskirts of River Heights? The only one who cones close to that is a young woman who boarded a cab at the bus station around five-thirty in the morning and was driven from there to the airport. But, of course, the bus depot is eight or ten blocks from the edge of town, and her description didn’t match Clare Grant’s at all.”

Nancy was disappointed, but said good- naturedly, “Well, thinks anyway, Chief. It seemed like a possibility worth following up, even if it didn’t pay off.”

“You bet. That’s the way most crimes get solved, Nancy, as you well know—by patiently checking out all possibilities.”

Only a few minutes after she had hung up, the telephone rang again. This time the caller was Carson Drew. “My private investigators have just phoned me a report on Pamela Kane, Nancy,” he said.

“Gee, fast work, Dad! Did they have any trouble?”

“None at all. They located the airline she flew on and found out that her flight reservation

had been made at a certain travel agency in Los Angeles. Apparently the travel agency gave them her address.”

“Did your investigators check it out?”

“Yes. Remember, you told me that she and Clare Grant used to be roommates? Well, since Clare moved East, Pamela apparently has been sharing an apartment with two other young women. One of them’s still in Los Angeles, but the other also recently came East. She’s a dancer named Sylvia Salmo. She went to New York to try to get a job on Broadway.”

“I see.” Nancy digested this news in silence for a moment, then said, “Well, so at any rate your investigators turned up nothing suspicious about Pamela?”

“No, apparently she’s just what she claims to be—a friend of Clare Grant’s who came here from California to visit her.”

“Okay, Dad. Thanks for your help. See you at dinner.” Putting down the phone, Nancy debated her next move. Perhaps it might be worthwhile to return to the scene of Clare’s disappearance to see if any fresh clues had turned up.

After a word to Hannah, she backed her blue sports car out of the garage and started out toward Possum Road. A short while later, when she rang the bell at the Fyfes’ house, Pamela Kane herself opened the door.

“Oh, Nancy! I’m so glad you’re here,” she exclaimed and led the way into the spacious living room. “I have something to show you!” “What is it?”

“Well, I was searching through Clare’s personal things, hoping that I might discover something that would give us a hint of what’s happened to her, and I found this piece of paper with a phone number on it.” Pamela picked up a slip of paper from a table and held it out with an eagerly hopeful expression.

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