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The advertisement, complete with a box number, appeared in New York newspapers: 'Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate?'
First publish date: 1980
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Velda Johnston
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