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Here's another little tidbit of noir to brighten your afternoon re. Florence:

Trim. That is not saying enough. She
was a 26 year old dark eyed brunette, five
feet four inches tall and 1 19 pounds. A
delightful morsel of femininity in any-
body's book. A policewoman ? Yes. The
kind of a policewoman a man would en-
joy being arrested by.

along San Pedro Street was easy to see
in spite of the meager illumination. The
light colored clothing she had deliber-
ately worn for the occasion stood out
clearly in the dim glow of the street



was bait in a special kind of trap. A
well trained tidbit placed in a snare
which had been set to apprehend the
vicious human animal who had been
preying on the women of southeast Los
Angeles. The unknown predator who
had given the San Pedro Street area the
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The trap was carefully planned and
well set up. Early in the day Florence
and Marie had been called into the of-
fice of Captain Ben Stein, commanding
officer of the Los Angeles Juvenile Bu-
reau and ordered to report to the 77th
Street station that night. The work was
not in the general line of duty for the
girls.

Her partner, Marie Little, a beauti-
ful, blue eyed blonde, shared her role.
While Florence walked in one direction,
awaiting the assault which they said
would be inevitable, Marie walked in
another.

There's more here:
http://www.archive.org/stream/police...3sanf_djvu.txt