Poison Ivy: A Lemmy Caution Thriller

Operation 42-7-3-36.

Special Agent Lemuel H. Caution will proceed to New York for the purpose of effecting under-cover contact with Federal Special Agent Myras Duncan, Chicago “G” Division, from whom further instructions will be obtained.

Special Agent Caution will assume the identity of Perry Charles Rice, travelling bond salesman: home town Mason City, Iowa. Contact with Myras Duncan to be made casually at Moksie’s Cafe, Waterfront, New York.

Duncan will have assumed identity of Harvest V. Mellander, rich middle western manufacturer seeking good time in New York. He may be identified by top joint of little finger missing from right hand. Special Agent Caution will prove identity by razor cut scar running from lower wrist across left palm.

Necessary funds available local “G” office. Take immediate action.

Read, learn, destroy.

Poison Ivy was originally published in 1937.

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