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Stamp Collector

PART FOURTEEN - THE STAMP COLLECTION

CHAPTER TWO

THE INTRIGUING CASE OF A MURDER IN PARIS

‘There were ten glossy green stamp albums, each containing pages of stamps set out by country alphabetically, some with one or two pages, others more extensive. The exceptions were found in three albums which were devoted to France and colonies, Great Britain and the Empire, USA, Brazil and Switzerland.

Noella spent much time going through these but found nothing which looked out of place or missing. Gaston Leroux was a thorough collector and with the aid of a catalogue listings had arranged his collection by date and

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