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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: her and a prison cell.
Her forehead gathered into little furrows; and, reverting to the
code message, her thoughts harked back to a well-known crime, the
authorship of which still remained a mystery, and which had stirred
the East Side some two years ago. A man - in the vernacular of the
underworld a "stage hand" - by the name of Kroner, credited with
having a large amount of cash, the proceeds of some nefarious
transaction, in his possession on the night in question, was found
murdered in his room in an old and tumble-down tenement of unsavory
reputation. The police net had gathered in some of the co-tenants
on suspicion; Nicky Viner, referred to in the code message, amongst
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