Peter Cookson

When extreme poverty and hunger leads a medical student to kill a loan shark, a detective with a hunch plays on the man’s guilt to coax a confession.

Two investigators arrive to guard a priceless necklace, but shifting motives and hidden agendas spark a wild tale of romance, danger, and deception.

When a series of robberies and three murders take place at the swank hotel where she works, switchboard operator Kitty O'Day, at great risk to herself, intervenes--and solves the case!