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2 stories matching comb
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:coomb, com, combat, combel, comber, combin
- The Uninvited Guest at Gold Creek
A traveling family’s campsite becomes a crime scene when a visitor is caught red-handed—or rather, silk-handed—stealing from her hosts.
- The Man Who Vanished Into the Fog: A Barber’s Final Journey
Coroner Cross and Dr. Root piece together the identity of a decomposed body found near Salmon Bay, linking it to a boarder at the Commercial Hotel who may have taken his own life with morphine.