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appeared, and waited impatiently with Jupe for Bob to finish. Finally the third Investigator touched the girl’s arm in a friendly way and left her. All three guys climbed back into the VW.“She give you her phone number?” Jupe asked a little enviously as they drove away.Bob shook his head.“She collects early Judy Garland records,” he explained. “She’s not my type.”Maybe that explained the nose wrinkling, Jupe thought. The girl had copied it from late-night Judy Garland movies on TV.“How come it took you ten minutes to find out she didn’t like rock?” Pete asked as they, headed back to the Coast Highway. “I thought you were a fast worker.”“That was just for openers,” Bob told him. “The rest of the time she was talking about the burglary. Attempted burglary, anyway.”“So give,” Jupe said. They were supposed to be investigating the puzzles, not picking up girls.“The way she told it,” Bob went on, “she was coming out of the coffee shop across the street when the burglar alarm outside that store went off. Then she saw a woman run away from the store, jump into a blue car, and burn rubber driving away.”“Did she see the woman’s face?” Jupe asked.“Blond hair. Slender build. About forty years old,” Bob said. “Color of eyes — unknown. The woman was wearing shades.”“Shades!” Pete exclaimed. “On a day like this you’d need windshield wipers on ’em!”“Yeah,” Jupe agreed. “Our forty-year-old blonde sounds like a bit of a mystery.”He was silent for a moment, thinking it over.“She tries to break into an empty store — to find what?”Silence.Jupe couldn’t let it go. “Something so valuable that she risked arrest to get it. Guys, there’s more to this contest than barbecued steaks!”
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