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A panoramic photograph depicting the funeral of Ukichi Taenaka, which was held at the Daishi Kyokai mission, part of Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin, or Koyasan Buddhist Temple, on Central Avenue in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The photograph depicts mourners and temple officials in front of the temple, and funeral wreaths from individuals, businesses, and organizations. A photograph of Taenaka is displayed at the center of the group. The print is captioned in Japanese, and credited to Izuo Studio, the studio of photographer Shigemi Izuo.
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Funeral picture at Ives and Warren Company, July 6, 1926. The body of a dead child laid out on a couch. Funeral image provided by Ives and Warren to Esles Smith at 2094 West Ave, Linda Vista.
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Mysteries have a way of finding Djuna, and this time a missing page from an old ship's log and the dead captain's haunted house start the ball rolling. Djuna has learned that Captain Beekman brought a treasure from his whaling trips. Who can have an interest in letting the boy get lost? Was Dejuna close to the answer of the mystery?
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When Scotland Yard detective John Carruthers attends the Wade Museum of Oriental Art, and begins to investigate the interior of one of a series of carriages on exhibit, he is sarcastically told by the night watchman "Watch out when you touch it! There's a dead man inside!" Of course, a dead man tumbles out. The corpse has been stabbed with an elaborate Persian dagger, is wearing an obvious set of false whiskers, and is clutching a cookbook. Gideon Fell must investigate the death and explain all the bizarre circumstances of what was a very busy night at the museum.
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The story is set at Telford Old Hall, a historic English estate haunted by the ghost of a long-dead Cavalier, Sir Byng Rawdon. The estate's prized family heirloom is the jeweled "Cavalier's Cup," which Sir Byng reportedly cursed while etching a poem into a diamond-paned window. When the cup is brought back to the manor from a bank vault, Lord "Tom" Brace attempts to protect it by guarding it in the heavily fortified Oak Room. Lord Brace wedges the heavy bolts on the door from the inside and fastens all the windows. The cup is placed in a safe, with its only key secured in the room as well.However, by morning, a seemingly impossible crime has occurred. The room remains entirely sealed, yet the cup has been removed from the safe and placed out on a table. Fearing he has become a sleepwalker, Lord Brace refuses to return to sleep, ultimately prompting his wife to call upon Scotland Yard.
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