The Almost Perfect Murder

a fatally critical point where every ounce of ability that I possess is required of me. The polio serum...\"

\"What is polio?\" asked Mme. Storey quickly.

\"Ah, pardon!\" he said, with a distracted gesture. \"A bit of laboratory slang. Polio is short for poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis. I have been working on it for many years. I have not yet succeeded in isolating the bacillus, but I have prepared a serum from the blood of immune monkeys which,


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a fatally critical point where every ounce of ability that I possess is required of me. The polio serum...\"

\"What is polio?\" asked Mme. Storey quickly.

\"Ah, pardon!\" he said, with a distracted gesture. \"A bit of laboratory slang. Polio is short for poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis. I have been working on it for many years. I have not yet succeeded in isolating the bacillus, but I have prepared a serum from the blood of immune monkeys which,


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