arrive at a result that usually does the trick.” Global heroin rings went up at the stroke of her pencil. Smuggling ships were skimmed off the ocean like fat from a simmering pot of soup stock. Each new feat startled loose a flock of news articles that sang about Elizebeth’s previous feats and added one more verse to the ballad of her growing legend. She decrypted a stack of intercepted letters and telegrams exchanged between a member of Shanghai’s fearsome Green Gang of criminal warlords and two brothers in San Francisco, Isaac and
