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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Cover Page

The Mystery of the Missing Bottles An Exciting Thriller Tbee world-famous detective, who preferred to be called simply Mr. Q, was solving a problem in his study when the telephone shrilled. Over the wire he heard a woman S agitated voice. "Come at once, she cried. "The suspense is driving me madl" Mr. Q quickly reached the scene of the mystery "| keep the bottle there, 1 explained the woman who had called She pointed 10 a shelf in the 41 kitchen_ It disappears. Three times F"ve replaced and three times it has gone. Is the house haunted?" 1 "Let me see your husband; Mr. 0 said. He took one glance at the man' $ well-groomed appearance and walked into the bedroom He went straight to the wardrobe and retrieved three partly-used bottles of Q-Tol Skin Emollient: Faced with the evidence of his crime, the husband ad- mitted to removing the Q-Tol, explaining that he could only enjoy his morning shave after he had rubbed soothing Q-Tol into his beard After saying the solution was to always keep two bottles of Q-Tol Skin Emollient in the home one in the kitchen and one in the bathroom ~~the great detective pocketed his handsome fee and left, well pleased that his genius had brought peace and contentment to still another home. (Q-Tol is manufactured at Q-Tol Laboratories by the Fluenzol Pty. Ltd,, Wellington )