Episode 13: Shirley Temple Is Missing
In which J. Edgar Hoover takes command
CHAPTER 34
Washington, D.C.
J. Edgar Hoover slammed down the phone on his wide, highly polished desk, staring with unseeing dark eyes about his fifth-floor office at the new Department of Justice building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Shirley Temple! What an abomination! What a case! What an opportunity for the FBI!
Although he was only of middling height and on…
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