Two small-time crooks kidnap a banker’s son in Alabama and soon find the boy is more than they can survive. Around that famous caper turn tales of a millionaire on the run in Central America, a war correspondent who outwits the censors with a coded cable, train robbers on the Sunset Express, and a mountain justice of the peace who sells a divorce for five dollars.
One of O. Henry’s liveliest collections, full of quick wit and tidy reversals. Download the free EPUB.