She Ain't Sleepin': This Year's Harlequin Valentine

The Window with the Sleeping Nude
Robert Leslie Bellem
Toronto: Harlequin, 1950

A mystery novel, The Window with the Sleeping Nude begins with store detective Barney Cunard – "two hundred pounds of hangover" – arriving at work at Westervelt Department Store. A naked mannequin is lying prone in a display window. Some joke, except that it's not a dummy and is very dead. Martha Deane's body is found upstairs. Then Kitty Cavane goes missing.

Harlequin's cover holds a greater mystery. Nora Gleeson had no navel.

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