Amazing Scam: Screaming Swallows

Author: Gardner
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Mason detective stories. The Amazing Swindler A woman mysteriously asks Mason to be her lawyer, but she won't explain what the matter is or how to protect her, only giving Mason a contact code: thirty-six—twenty-four—thirty-six. After the woman leaves, Mason's receptionist tells him that he had accidentally seen a large amount of cash stuffed into her handbag, and her actions were also secretive and evasive. With full doubts, Mason begins his investigation. The Screaming Swallows Major Wainette asks Mason for help finding his missing wife, saying she left a letter behind before leaving. The major also mentions that the night before his wife left, he was woken up by the frantic screams of swallows. At that time, his wife panicked and told him that someone had broken into their home and stolen their jewelry. Later, the fact that their jewelry was indeed missing was confirmed. Mason arrives at the major's estate, sees the swallow's nest on the balcony, and reaches out to the swallows, whose painstakingly mud-built homes they had painstakingly built.