"New York City, 1922-Murder-half-million dollar robbery-false accusation-secret passage-the underworld-a mystery woman-a masked man-a crooked lawyer-stolen jewels-a forged will. . .
"Every hour . . . held a surer promise, not only of desperate peril to himself, but a promise that he would find himself launched in a sea of crime, of shuddering things, of murder, of blood, of sordid viciousness, of hate."
- Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier"
