The Rat Racket

The Rat Racket

With Dr. Keller's genius for hitting at vital spots every time, he now gives us a brand new idea and an ingenious solution. We hope no racketeers read this story. They might, as a result, cause the police some trouble. Fortunately, however, the racket has a flaw. Richard Moyer, senior partner of the firm of Moyer & Perkins, read that letter over twice before he called in the man who had helped him make the importing of high grade groceries from England a most profitable business for over twenty years. "Looks like it. I suppose we were foolish to start in paying for protection. First our trucks were threatened; then the new building; after that our best customers were bombed, and we had to pay to protect them. Your son was kidnappedand the police! They even went so far as to advise that we keep on payingand now this letter! We might as well close out the business. All our profits go toward supporting a gang of criminals who have muscled into every type of American industry." "On the face of it the letter looks innocent enough," sighed Perkins, as he picked it up and gave it another reading. "Simply says that the rat menace is increasing, cites several business houses where the rodents have done a great deal of damage, and offers to give our warehouses complete protection for five thousand a week. You could show that letter to a hundred police officials and they would laugh at your fears. But I am not laughing. Because that letter was written on the same damaged typewriter that the other letters were written on and those gangsters have not failed to make any of their threats good." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 26890
Author: Keller, David H. (David Henry)
Release Date: Oct 12, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Kotzky, Alex, 1923-1996