Excerpt from Ginger Rogers and the Riddle of the Scarlet Cloak: An Original Story Featuring Ginger Rogers, Famous Motion-Picture Star, as the Heroine Ginger rogers sat at the telephone switchboard of the Seaview Arms Hotel in a city on the West Coast. One pump-clad foot tapped a lazy rhythm on the circle of wood that held together the long legs of the stool on which she was perched. Eight hours a night, six nights a week, she sat there, answering in that voice with a smile the thousand-and-one strange requests which only the guests of expensive hotels have the courage to make or the imagination to conceive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.