The Wistful Cipher

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NOTICE: FILE 1998-LD-042 MISSING. STATUS: UNRESOLVED. Chapter One The smell of wet cardboard and old dust hung thick in the basement of the Hanoi Central Records Office, a scent that clung to Thị Lan’s hair like a second skin. She was thirty-two, a junior clerk with a reputation for frivolous chatter, and she wanted only to clear her name by proving she did not steal the missing 1998 land deed....

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