trail of a story.” Nothing worked. She had chosen a profession that continually immersed her in lurid realities. “She is entrusted with more secrets of the crime world and of federal detection activities than any woman in history,” reported Reader’s Digest in 1937, in a five-page feature that declared Elizebeth “Key Woman of the T-Men” and was mailed to more than a million subscribers. “When one of the Treasury Department’s enforcement agencies gets the scent of a new international enterprise in smuggling, dope running . . . there is one unofficial order that sticks in every agent’s mind: ‘Get
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