" The Woman Who Disappeared "

"The Woman Who Disappeared" is a detective story written by Philip Prowse . It was published in 1975 and this edition was published in 1992.

This story begins when a beautiful woman called Helen Garfield comes to a private detective and asks him to find her sister who was disappeared since two weeks ago, Elaine Garfield .It's not much fun being a private eye. This detective Lenny Samuel, attractive tall man with brown eyes and hair, faces a lot of troubles caused by this case. His office is on the west side of Los Angeles, on the forty floor of a high building. Helen doesn't want him to have contact with the police and she doesn't want to say why. Lenny starts with the investigation and visits the missing woman's apartment . There was nobody at home so he opened the door and walked in. He saw that most of her clothes were gone and that's not normal when people disappear .When he was about leaving the place, two men attacked him and told him to stop working on this case he fell on the ground senselessly. He thought that this case is an easy disappearing case like the other cases he worked on ,but not anymore.However,he decided to continue.
The Next day, he went to Myer and Myer, the place where Elaine works.He started asking everyone about her.He knew from Suzy , Elaine's colleague, that  Elaine was seeing a guy called Benny Greep . They used to hang out at Las Cabanas Club ,so he went there.He found out that Benny is drummer of a band and he is Elaine's boyfriend . The cleaner who works at the club gave Lenny Benny's address.
The detective arrived to Benny's apartment nobody was there. The place was very quiet and the door was opened so he got in .He saw something He was shocked ... a died man lying in the bathroom .It's Benny , the clue he needed for his case had disappeared ,too .He called the police .The police arrested him for murdering Benny Greep . He told the sergeant that he is a detective and explained the whole case for him ,so  he allowed him to go . The police started investigating  the case.
After few weeks He starts to collect all the information that he get, and finally conclude that Elaine is not disappeared. Helen is Elaine then, he asks her to tell the truth. Helen confesses she is truly Elain. She does it because she wanted to save her life several weeks ago, she and her boyfriend Benny Greep  went to Las Cabanas Club. There, they listened to a conversation between Jo and his friend who were stealing   jewelries and diamonds. Benny suggested to steal those jewelries, and they did it. Jo and friend knew about it. They killed Benny and looked for Elaine. Elaine was so afraid. She decided to hide herself and show as Helen, Elaine’s twins. Then she went to Lenny and asked him to find herself.
The story ends at the same moment the criminals try to get the bag back they are arrested. Poor Lenny, he has not paid for all his efforts because Elaine has no money after returning the bag with the jewelries .

In fact ,I really like this story because it has the sense of mystery .What impressed me is the way that the woman thought .She deceived everyone and nobody doubted .The language is easy  ,the writer  used simple words and  the way of telling the story is very interesting . Also I admired Lenny 's  intelligence and perseverance . I think that this story has message for people it says that when we do something, we have to get ready to get the impact.

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*Characters  :

1. Lenny Samuel : tall, has brown eyes and hair, attractive, a private detective.
2. Elaine Garfield : Actually, Elaine and Helen Garfield is the same person, she is a beautiful girl, she has a blue eyes and long blonde hair, friendly.
3. Mr. Myer : a man who was about fifty – five years old, has a grey hair and face.
4. Jo : one of the bandit, a short man and has a red-hair.
5. Suzy Graham : Elaine’s partner, a small and slim girl, and had a pair of beautiful brown eyes, nice girl.
6. Benny Greep : drummer of a band, Elaine’s boyfriend, handsome boy, and had quite long black hair.
7. Sergeant Murphy : a policeman, bold, he was about fifty-five years old.

 *The story took a place in the USA Los Angeles and the time is not mentioned