Don Cadee Mystery #7 (1959)

Monday morning at Ambletts Department Store gets off to a lousy start for Chief of Store Protection Don Cadee, and the rest of the day plunges sharply downhill from there. Someone has neatly diverted several truckloads of Ambletts stock orders to Branch Warehouse Number Two. Which doesn't exist. Although some of the missing goods are legitimate store purchases, Cadee is also hearing reports of meticulously forged Ambletts order forms at every turn. This was clearly an inside job. One name that keeps coming up is that of well-liked Christiane Leblanc, buyer for the Fine Linens and Laces Department. She's definitely connected to the whole mess in one way or another, but then she, too, goes missing while on an errand to retrieve several forged order forms from an Ambletts supplier. One of the last people she spoke with before leaving the store was Louise Eston in Purchasing, another well-liked Ambletts employee. Louise is subsequently found in a fifth floor ladies room. Dead. From causes that are manifestly not natural. It isn't even noon yet.