Word: scaffa
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Crime-of-the-Week, issue of Nov. 14, was not solved by Private Detective Noel Scaffa, diamond-finder extraordinary, but by Lieut Amos Anderson of the small but efficient Darien Police Department...
Wealthy Mrs. Paul M. Browne of Darien, Conn., an expectant mother during the summer, had had no occasion to wear her diamond bracelet and earrings until one evening last fortnight. They were gone. Her insurance company called in Private Detective Noel Scaffa, diamond finder extraordinary...
After quizzing the Browne servants, last week Sleuth Scaffa bee-lined for Manhattan's Hotel Montclair. There he uncovered the thief and gave Mrs. Browne a nasty shock. The culprit was one of her best friends, Mrs. Whitney Endt, 28, wife of an insurance broker, future heiress to a comfortable fortune, often a welcome guest in the Browne home. Mrs. Endt, who recently lost a child and suffered injuries in a motor wreck, weepingly promised to redeem the $2,000 worth of jewels from pawnbrokers. Police opinion: kleptomania...