When Thief Meets Thief

When Thief Meets Thief, first published in 1938, recounts the adventures of Jerry Hammond, a novelist turned ‘cracksman’ – safe-cracker – as he attempts to regain his rightful ownership of book plots, stolen from him by Tillary Steevens. Jerry Hammond is a world-class yeggman! He once spent a year in a San Do Mar prison and learned everything there is to know about safe-cracking from Capetown Slim, one of the greatest. His skill, and the help of cellmate Laughin’ Sam from Alabam’, are all he has to battle the frame his childhood friend, Tillary Steevens, has laid on him, and at the same time re-win the affections of the woman he calls The Princess, even though she’s married to a disabled man! This masterful webwork novel from the smokin’ typewriter of Harry Stephen Keeler, is even more confounding than it sounds. A minor classic from The Man with the Hunger!