Slipper on the Bow
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San Diego Bay, Monday, November 17, 1924, 8:00 am. On the anchored yacht Silver Gull, film producer Leland Sorensen, who turned 44 yesterday, was found dead at 2:00 am at the foot of the bow stairs.
The yacht owner's people sent word that it was indigestion and wanted to carry him ashore on a stretcher. The harbor doctor found a bullet behind his left ear.
Sorensen wore a camel-hair coat and a white yachting cap that were not his. His wallet and gold watch were in his pocket. It was not a robbery.
Three people spent the night aboard and are in this salon. One of them knows why he died in another man's clothes.
Saloon of a luxury yacht in 1924, morning, with leftover birthday cake and champagne glasses.
Suspects
Prudence AmblerGossip columnist for the yacht owner's newspaper, 52 years old
Rudy QuillanFamous comedian from the sailor films, 35 years old
Hollis VandermeerPress tycoon and owner of the yacht, 61 years old
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