Museum Mystery (1937)
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Clifford Gulliver
The story
The curator of a museum is taken ill on the morning of the exhibition of a valuable Chinese statue, and Peter Redding, a visiting student of Oriental art, is invited to act as stand-in for the curator. Ruth, the curator's daughter, at first resents Peter's intrusion, but they later foil the owner's plot to have the piece stolem and fraudulently claim the insurance money.
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