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From: The Shadow, Crooks Go Straight, 3/1/35



RED IS FOR FOX

By Roswell Brown





Red is for fox and for Grace Culver, the red-headed detective hound who

is smart enough to trap him!





The girl with red hair sucked up the last of a double chocolate soda through

soggy straws, and grunted regretfully at the hollow sound of air replacing creamy

liquid at the bottom openings of the two stems.

Above the drug store counter, an electric clock pointed to twenty-seven

minutes after twelve. Her sherry-colored eyes watching the thin, crimson

second-indicator slide quickly around the numbered circle. Miss Culver of the

Noonan Detective Agency wondered what to do with the last half of her lunch

hour,

The only trouble with meals at counters, where foaming double chocolates

were mixed before your eyes, was speed. Too much time left over at the end. If

you didn't happen to be in a neighborhood that lent itself to window-shoppingЧ

Grace Culver grinned quickly and snapped her fingers in triumph. Of course!

The Banner offices were only four blocks further downtown.

In the old days, when she had worked on the paper as a "sob sister," she often

had grabbed food from this very counter between a murder scoop and a Famous-