In the short story Mr Eastwood's Adventure, Anna Rosenburg is a person, most likely a fictitious character, in a story spun by the the Patterson gang as part of an elaborate hoax. Anna Rosenburg is, according to this story, a Jewish dealer of second-hand clothing who gains possession of a certain Spanish shawl. Over the course of several years, she appears to grow inexplicably rich. Her house is burgled several times by people trying to gain possession of the shawl. In the end she is stabbed to death. Anthony Eastwood is arrested by two policemen for the murder of Anna Rosenburg. It turns out that these policemen are actually members of the gang and they use the arrest to gain acceess to Eastwood's apartment in order to rob it.
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