what was the solution? The troublesome publicity came to a peak in the first months of 1938, when the buzz from the Reader’s Digest profile dovetailed with a new round of press from a flashy drug trial in Canada. At the request of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Elizebeth flew to Vancouver to analyze messages discovered in a raid of a Chinese merchant’s home and business. Police seized thirteen Luger pistols, four hundred Mauser clips, almost one hundred machine gun drums, numerous cans of opium, and two dozen coded cablegrams in a safe. Working with RCMP translators, Elizebeth solved the
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