It begins in a cobwebbed café off Camp Street in New Orleans, where reporters gather after midnight, and follows a clever, embittered young writer who decides to take by theft what the world will not pay him. Pursued from city to city by the patient detective Broffin, he must reckon with a woman’s influence and with the real cost of his crime.
A well-paced crime romance of 1910 with a strong moral thread. Download the free EPUB.