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Chapter 106 Fraudulently Claiming Copyright Fees

The publisher stopped paying royalties for her book "Moscow Memories" after the female writer Elle died last month.Ellie mentioned in her book that her husband died in 1910, but a person who claimed to be Ellie's husband came to claim the copyright fee of the book with a Russian passport, birth certificate and marriage certificate.

At the publisher's request, private investigator Jenkins spoke with the man who identified himself as Ally's husband as follows:

"Your wife talks in her book about you dying of pneumonia, and it's incomprehensible that you didn't let her know you were alive again."

"Six months after we got married, I got measles, not pneumonia, and the hospital confused me with someone else, and the news came out that I died, and I didn't want to correct the misinformation."

"Your English is good. I think you must have traveled to many places in the past few decades, and you have achieved great success in your career."

"You are right. I was quite successful in the textile trade. In the second year after the news of my death I sold my firm to a large Leningrad firm and kept the shares. Since then I have been traveling all over the world. travel."

After the conversation, Jenkins told the publisher: "To report to the police to check his papers, which I believe are forged."

Why did Jenkins come to this conclusion?

[Answer] Because it was still called "St. Petersburg" in 1912, it was changed to "Leningrad" after the October Revolution, which took place in 1917.

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