By that I mean I'm surprised when the festival was held in its biannual location of Los Angeles, it never made use of the permanently docked museum/hotel/convention/venue historical ocean liner, the Queen Mary. ... I'm sure TLATKLS would enjoy participating, having the chance to stay aboard the legendary liner.

Miss Hopewell orders her secretary to send this letter to Miss Victoria Winters, Collinswood, Collinsport, Maine--"Dear Victoria--I think you should know that shortly after our telephone conversation today, I received a visit from a man who said that he was a magazine writer, and finally admitted he was a private detective--oddly enough, his inquiry was almost the same as our phone conversation

--he was anxious to learn why you had been hired by the Collins family, who recommended you, and the rest of it--the detective's name was Wilbur Strake--do you know this man, or have you any idea who hired him to learn this facts about you?"