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    The Ambulance Made Two Trips
    The Ambulance Made Two Trips
    The Ambulance Made Two Trips
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    The Ambulance Made Two Trips

    By Murray Leinster

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    If you should set a thief to catch a thief, what does it take to stop a racketeer...?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmazing Sci-Fi Classics
    Release dateJan 24, 2016
    ISBN9781518380013
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    Murray Leinster

    Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American science fiction and alternate history writer. He was a prolific author with a career spanning several decades, during which he made significant contributions to the science fiction genre.

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      The Ambulance Made Two Trips - Murray Leinster

      THE AMBULANCE MADE TWO TRIPS

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      Murray Leinster

      AMAZING SCI-FI CLASSICS

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Murray Leinster

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Ambulance Made Two Trips

      THE AMBULANCE MADE TWO TRIPS

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      DETECTIVE SERGEANT FITZGERALD FOUND A package before his door that morning, along with the milk. He took it inside and opened it. It was a remarkably fine meerschaum pipe, such as the sergeant had longed irrationally to own for many years. There was no message with it, nor any card. He swore bitterly.

      On his way to Headquarters he stopped in at the orphanage where he usually left such gifts. On other occasions he had left Scotch, a fly-rod, sets of very expensive dry-flies, and dozens of pairs of silk socks. The female head of the orphanage accepted the gift with gratitude.

      I don’t suppose, said Fitzgerald morbidly, that any of your kids will smoke this pipe, but I want to be rid of it and for somebody to know. He paused. Are you gettin’ many other gifts on this order, from other cops? Like you used to?

      The head of the orphanage admitted that the total had dropped off. Fitzgerald went on his way, brooding. He’d been getting anonymous gifts like this ever since Big Jake Connors moved into town with bright ideas. Big Jake denied that he was the generous party. He expressed complete ignorance. But Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald knew better. The gifts were having their effect upon the Force. There was a police lieutenant whose wife had received a mink stole out of thin air and didn’t speak to her husband for ten days when he gave it to the Community Drive. He wouldn’t do

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