The telegram went out at 4:55am, from a small town in Southern Oregon. “NEED SERVICES OF DETECTIVE TO SOLVE MURDER CASE,” it read. “RELATIVES SUSPICIONED.”
It traveled hundreds of miles up the West Coast to the stately Arctic Building on the corner of Third and Cherry in downtown Seattle. Outside on the facade were terra-cotta walrus heads carved like Gothic gargoyles. Inside was the desk of Luke May, president of Revelare International Secret Service.
May, only 30 years old, was the founder and lead investigator of Revelare. Humphrey Bogart as famous sleuth Philip Marlowe would have put his feet up on the desk; Nick Charles of The Thin Man would have
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