“The girl called herself Mary Moy. She also arrived about two months ago and worked as a maid in the house that was robbed. She quit the job four days ago and caught a plane to Hong Kong.”
“Any description of her?” the blonde asked.
“Only that she’s young and beautiful and unusually tall for a Chinese girl.”
“Did you tell Simmons about the case?” Burney asked.
“Yes. He said he’d try to check on it, and he warned me that he didn’t care for what he called amateurs messing around in police cases.”
“That sounds like him,” Burney said. “Well, there isn’t much to go on. What do you think, Linda?”
“From what I’ve heard,” she said, “it sounds as if our best bet might be to try to check on natives who have been away for the past two months and have just returned.”
Burney nodded. “That, and s
