The Golden Suspect

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The ledger pages were counted twice, then weighed on the brass scales, a ritual of precision that Mildred Kilbride had perfected over twelve years of service in the Guild Hall. She was thirty-four, a woman whose life had been reduced to the weight of paper and the warmth of ink, and she stood in the drafting room with the cold damp of the November river seeping through the stone floor and into...

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