A young man arrives in San Francisco on a dangerous errand, only to have the friend he came to meet murdered in the fog before he can learn its purpose. Under a borrowed name he goes to work for the mining-stock speculator Doddridge Knapp, lodges at Mother Borton’s dive and follows the trail through the waterfront and the opium dens of Chinatown.
A fast mystery of the old Barbary Coast city, full of stock-market intrigue and waterfront atmosphere. Download the free EPUB.