Medusa's Head Involving Missing Wife Case Sparks Private Inquiry
Aaron Glaenzer hires private investigator Motherwell to locate Crandall White's wife who vanished with the jewel known as Medusa's Head. A note warns the husband not to call police as she hopes to return. Coggeshall hints the wife is worried while jewelry travels with her. An old woman and a chemist's package connect the case to the White household.
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Crandall White
Aaron Glaenzer
Motherwell
Coggeshall
Wentzel
Onyx Package and a Hidden Past Unfold in France
Motherwell confronts a mysterious onyx box from Glaenzer and Company as he pursues the Medusa case. A young sleuth tests leads, questions a lab, and tracks a possible Mrs Gray while weighing a lover or husband motive behind a wealthy, secretive woman’s flight. The jeweler Mr Glaenzer and Momtherwell exchange theories about Coggeshall, Old Pretzels, and Wentzel as the pursuit continues.
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Motherwell
Wells
Glaenzer and Company
Doctor Schaffner
Schaffner
Brucca
Coggeshall
Mr. Glaenzer
New York
Mr. Motherwell
Mr. Wells
Herald
Wentzel
War Board
Chemical Engineers Club
Columbia
Jersey
Paris
Glaenzer
Blooding a Building Pagan belief echoes in England
A superstition holds that new buildings must be blooded to avert misfortune. After a Stratford-on-Avon workman died from a fall during construction of the Shakespeare theater, a fellow worker claimed the tragedy would “save blooding the new building” by prompting animal sacrifice on site to ensure safety.
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England
Stratford-on-Avon
New Shakespeare Theater
Origin of the Apple Dumpling Tale in Norfolk Folklore
A Norfolk farmer and his wife share a risqué tale about the origin of the apple dumpling. The husband compares his wife’s cheeks to apples and is told he may eat them the next day. The morrow brings a twist as the wife presents an apple dumpling father to the farmer, who laughs and spends on ribbons.
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George II
Norfolk
Nature
Rowles
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