The ruby was the color of a wound.

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Jack Morrison stared at the photograph Veronica Vale had slid across his desk and felt that familiar hollow ache behind his ribs. It was the ache that had followed him home from the Pacific, the one that no amount of whiskey had been able to fill. Five thousand dollars. In 1947, that was a fortune. That was a bar. That was a life. "I need it found," Veronica said. She was sitting in the chair...

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