Beware the Evil eye!
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"The Evil Eye of Africa"
By Jayne Barnard
A Guess-the-Murderer Mystery in Two Acts
By Jayne Barnard
A Guess-the-Murderer Mystery in Two Acts
Act I: The Headlines Thicken
The Goggles Grapevine – August 1, 1898
EVIL EYE DIAMOND GLOWS RED SAYS PROF
 Professor Plum, seen here vigorously protesting his innocence, was one of the last people to see Baron von Boddy alive before his departure for Egypt last May. Scotland Yard today confirmed there is no case against Professor Polonius Plum for the theft and sale of Henry Brown’s trunk. “Our only possible witness to any sale has gone missing,” said Chief Inspector Snidely Bellows. “You know, that chap whose airship was just found floating off the South Coast. Without him or the trunk, we’ve got nothing.” | Plum proclaimed his innocence. “Von Boddy wasn’t going after a mask anyway. Masks in Africa are as common as mutton in England. My friend was on the trail of a unique red-veined diamond, sometimes called a bloodshot diamond.” There followed a long, technical explication of the geological processes by which other rare minerals are compressed into the midst of a diamond. When the American academic’s latest threat was quoted to him, Plum said, “Brown’s yearning to discredit me because I demanded his expulsion from Oxford. If he dares lay a violent hand on me, I’ll have him up on charges. Immediately following a sharp lesson in British pugilism.” The professor is departing today for Boddy Manor in Cornwall. While awaiting news of his friend’s fate, he intends to catalogue the baron’s papers for his university. |
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