Seventeen gripping tales from one of the toughest authors in the history of crime fiction They call him Lucky -- but he has never had a lucky day in his life. A nineteen-year-old hobo just starting to ride the rails, he is hiding in the coal car when the railroad detective comes through. They get into a scuffle, and Lucky's hand finds a railroad spike. Before he knows it, he has smashed the investigator's head and shoved him out of the car. If he...

An insurance salesman and an unhappy wife conspire to murder her husband and collect his insurance policy.

A collection of six crime novels written in the first part of the twentieth century, telling of murder, adultery, corruption, and violence.