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Sir Eric Dorm returns from a perilous expedition into the heart of the Libyan Desert with a harrowing tale. He claims his young partner, Warren, cowardly abandoned him in the dead of night, stealing the priceless gold plates stripped from a hidden desert Sphinx. With Warren's reputation ruined and his fiancé seemingly fleeing to Europe in shame, the case appears closed.

Listen to "The Phantom Woman," a gripping classic mystery short story by the renowned American author Melville Davisson Post. About the Story: Sarah Whitney finds herself unjustly dispossessed of her mother's priceless heirloom—a breathtaking Burma ruby bracelet—which passed into the hands of her eccentric stepfather, the Hungarian violinist Count Andreas. On her deathbed in London, Sarah's stepmother vowed to return from the grave to make the Count surrender the jewels.