CONTENTS

Prelude:    Scars

PART I: THE CHEAPER THE CROOK

Chapter I:        The Devilish Art

Chapter II:       A Company Man

Chapter III:      $5,000 Blood Money

Chapter IV:      Out of Uniform

Chapter V:       Dearest Woman

Chapter VI:      The Last Case

PART II: THE EX-DETECTIVE

Chapter VII:      A Little Man Going Forward

Chapter VIII:    The Old Man

Chapter IX:       Blackmasking

Chapter X:        The Price of Peggy O’Toole

Chapter XI:       The Big Ship

Chapter XII:      Among the Ghosts

Chapter XIII:     Babylon and Back

Afterword:        A Hundred Bucks

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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