That morning I trudged to my office to take care of some paperwork relating to another job; without that work to occupy me, I would have headed out for Rahway at the crack of dawn. Instead, I found, in the morning mail, the following letter—if it could be called that—enclosed in an unmarked sheet of paper: DROP THIS CASE IF YOU WANT TO SEE LIZBETH ALIVE The writing was in plain block letters; the writer had used a blue fountain pen in a hand that seemed to shake slightly. The first thing I did was to pick up the phone and call Thornleigh. The phone was answered by Joseph, whose voice was almost shrill with consternation and worry. It didn’t take me long to find out the essentials of what had happened. “Is Lizbeth missing?” I barked. “Y-yes, sir,” Joseph stammered. “Taken in the night. . . . The whole household is in an uproar . . . .” “Have you called the police?”
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