Boston Blackie

That's no way to joke, Blackie.

A string of valuable pearls was stolen sometime today from this shop.

I personally took them out of the safe and put them in the showcase this morning.

That'd be an inside job.

How about your employees, Mr. Gordon?

Well, just those two women you see behind the counters, that's all.

Mrs. Phillips, the short gray-haired woman, has been here 20 came with us 18 years ago.

And I trust both of them implicitly.

Bonded delivery service.

And nobody came into the shop today except regular customers, eh?

Nobody came in just to look around?

Well, not today.

And we always pay particular attention to strangers.

Do you have any kind of a record of people who did come in?

Yes, we have a complete list.

You see, when someone comes in to have something repaired, we give him a receipt and keep the duplicate.

And when anyone purchases an article, well, naturally, we enter that in our records, too.

Good.

Bring me the day's sales records, please.

That list might give me a lead, but with my luck, I doubt it.