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Case File · Detective · No. 013
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The Missing Manuscript
≈ 4 min
A rare handwritten manuscript valued at over $200,000 has vanished from the Hargrove Public Library's Special Collections room. Head librarian Nora Finch discovered it missing when she opened the room at 9:00 AM. Security footage from the hallway shows the room was accessed once between closing time and morning — at 11:47 PM.
Subject
Hargrove Manuscript
A 19th-century handwritten novel draft, the library's most prized possession, kept in a locked display case in the Special Collections room.
The suspects
- Nora Finch — Head Librarian
- Derek Cole — Graduate Researcher
- Paula Vance — Night Security Guard
- Gordon Marsh — Library Board Member
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