The Glass Ladder

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A complex plot and a twisty ending. Rick Mason, a private eye with the lucrative Global Indemnity account, had a hunch that all hell would start popping when heist-artist Mike Duryea was released from the penitentiary after serving five years for the Rajah Emerald haul. Global had shelled out $75,000, the rock had never turned up, and now sundry trigger-happy characters were all itching for the fateful day. Though long missing, the giant emerald was now reaping a harvest of murder--starting with the mean death of a furtive, lonely stranger in a Skidrow rooming house. A corpse with no identity--except a bundle of clippings on the Rajah Emerald case. Rick took it from there. But the Rajah Emerald was an evil green eye, with death in its wake, and Rick had to witness two more sudden deaths before the coveted jewel came to light!