The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective. Take. Sheriff Bill Whitington, Marin County Sheriff's Office, San Miffel, California, from Samuel Suede,

San Francisco License Number 137596.

Subject, the Battles of Belvedere, dear Bill.

By this time I should have known better and I did.

For a square mile there are more screwballs and your stamping ground across the bay than should happen even to me.

But the Belvedere Island is very small and I'd always been very curious about it.

I can see it from my office window.

A little green hump rising out of the water just around the corner from the Golden Gate Bridge and connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway.

But I got there the stylish way.

A sign on a dock we made for said Battle Landing. I thought I knew what that meant because my client's name was Jonathan Battle.

But I was not quite prepared for the beautiful welcome I got.

Golden is the word that best describes her.

From the gold sheen of her complexion with the gold sandals on her delicate little feet and the heavy oriental type gold jewelry

gleaming from her ankles, arms, throat, and earlodes.

Her jet black hair was partially covered with a gold embroidered sari and as she came nearer.

I saw that her eyes were their slight oriental cast were not green

as they looked from the distance but blue with flecks of golden.

I am Chandra Nestleess me Mr. Spade. Welcome to Belvedere Island.

Thanks. I think I like it here.

If you will accompany me, I will take you up to the house.

Thank you. I am sorry you up there. Thank you.

I am sorry my foster father could not be here to greet you,

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