“Mysterious disappearances don’t occur,” William J. Burns, the head of the William J. Burns National Detective Agency, said flatly. He was talking to a reporter from The Houston Post, who was interviewing him for the December 22 edition of the paper.

Burns was a famed detective in his day. Prior to opening his own agency, he was a well-known detective with the United States Secret Service.

William J. Burns

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