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Beetles in the Mansion Spark a Bold Scheme
Average Jones spots a detestable ad about ten thousand black beetles at Judge Hawley Ackroyd’s West Sixteenth Street mansion. He uses beetles and a network of “detectives” to trap Ackroyd, save Sylvia Graham’s dog, expose the scheme, and win her affections after a dramatic chase through the Ackroyd house.
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Ackroyd
W. Sixteenth St
New York
Jones
Simpson
Average Jones
Ramson
Fulton Street
Bertram
Cosmic Club
Astor Court Temple
West Sixteenth Street
West Sixteenth
Feltner Mansion
Central Park
Hawley Ackroyd
Judge Ackroyd
Consolidated
van Haltern
van Haltern Will
Sylvia Graham
Miss Graham
Schuylkill
Jim
Bert
Ife
Miss Ackroyd
Sylvia
A. V. R. E. Jones
Edna Hale’s
Blue Fires
Graham
Don Quixote
Sixteenth Street
Sliss Graham
Uncle Hawley
Au Revoir
Peter Paul
Europe
Mr. Jones
Quy” Ackroyd
Amelia van Haltern
The
Bobbs-Merrill Company