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IN BRIEF: Hopalong and California are in New York City for the Great West Rodeo at Madison Square Garden. Before heading home, they want to visit California's old girlfriend Hashknife Lil Carver, who now runs a waterfront warehouse. When they find her, a skinny little gunman with an English accent runs in, seeking refuge. Police later shoot him; he was a smuggler, English Eddie, who ran Duke Export Co. He'd hidden aboard the Diomede. In a cartridge California took from the man, Hoppy finds a hollow shell and a paper with the words "Black Cat Salem" on it. Lil goes to auction to bid on 2.5 tons of abalone shell which came on the Diomede. She outbids a fat man, Dr. Sidney Trotter of Trotter Laboratories, who later buys the crates of shells from her. He says he needs them for medical experiments. He can't wait until the next day, and takes them at gunpoint. Hoppy and California check the ship, the captain shows them Eddie's coat, and a few shells on the deck. One is hollow. On Salem Street in Brooklyn (the city where Hoppy creator Mulford lived for many years), they find the Black Cat, a boat. When they finally catch up with Trotter and his henchman Willy, they have cracked open the shells, but not found all the hidden diamonds they expected. Hoppy and California get a reward. (Ashkenazie)
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