Last Seen Wearing: The First-Ever Police Procedural (Library of Congress Crime Classics)

No one saw her leave, and no one knows where she went... It's a perfectly typical day for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly ordinary university in Massachusetts. She goes to class, chats with friends, and retires to her dorm room. Everything is normal until suddenly it's not—in the blink of an eye, Lowell is gone. Facts are everything for Police Chief Frank Ford. He's a small-town cop, and he knows only hard evidence and thorough procedure will lead him to the truth. Together with the wise-cracking officer Burt Cameron, the grizzled chief will deal with the distraught family, chase dead-end leads, interrogate shady witnesses, and spend late nights ruminating over black coffee and cigars. Everyone tells him what a good, responsible girl Lowell is. But Ford believes that Lowell had a secret and that if he can discover it, this case will crack wide open. Considered one of the first-ever police procedurals and hailed as an American mystery milestone, Last Seen Wearing—based on a true story—builds suspense through its accurate portrayal of an official police investigation. Hillary Waugh, who earned the title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America, went on to create several memorable series, but this classic crime novel ranks among his finest work. This next installment in the Library of Congress Crime Classics series will keep readers in suspense until the final page. New OCR formatted, proofed, v1.5. No one saw her leave, and no one knows where she went...It's a perfectly typical day for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly ordinary university in Massachusetts. She goes to class, chats with friends, and retires to her dorm room. Everything is normal until suddenly it's not—in the blink of an eye, Lowell is gone.Facts are everything for Police Chief Frank Ford. He's a small-town cop, and he knows only hard evidence and thorough procedure will lead him to the truth. Together with the wise-cracking officer Burt Cameron, the grizzled chief will deal with the distraught family, chase dead-end leads, interrogate shady witnesses, and spend late nights ruminating over black coffee and cigars. Everyone tells him what a good, responsible girl Lowell is. But Ford believes that Lowell had a secret and that if he can discover it, this case will crack wide open.Considered one of the first-ever police procedurals and hailed as an American mystery milestone, Last Seen Wearing—based on a true story—builds suspense through its accurate portrayal of an official police investigation. Hillary Waugh, who earned the title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America, went on to create several memorable series, but this classic crime novel ranks among his finest work. "It's a perfectly ordinary morning for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly normal university in Massachusetts. She goes to her Friday morning history class, heads back to her dormitory, and spends time talking to her roommate. But nothing is ordinary about her disappearance twelve hours later. Considered one of the first-ever police procedurals, Last Seen Wearing is riveting in its accurate portrayal of an official police investigation. Based on the true-crime story of a Bennington College co-ed who disappeared in 1946, this, the next installment in the Library of Congress Crime Classics, is an engrossing, nail-biting mystery"-- Provided by publisher First year student Lowell Mitchell arrived on time for her Friday morning history class, afterwards returning to her room. Shortly before lunchtime, roommate Peggy Wooding talked to her as she lay on the bed with an arm across her face. Mitch felt sick, nothing serious, said Peggy. That was all she could remember. Because, after that, the pretty eighteen-year-old student simply disappeared ... Twelve hours elapse before Chief of Police Frank W. Ford is notified. By Sunday the vanishing student is headline news - and by Tuesday she is the centre of a breathtakingly thorough investigation, concerning murder Wearing her trademark blue jeans, white shirt, sneakers and ankle socks, first-year student Lowell Mitchell arrived on time for her Friday morning history class, afterwards returning to her room. This is the story of her disapperance. Wearing her trademark blue jeans, white shirt, sneakers and ankle socks, first-year student Lowell Mitchell arrived on time for her Friday morning history class, afterwards returning to her room. This is the story of her disappearance