The D.A. Holds a Candle

Douglas Selby the ambitious young District Attorney of the territory around Madison City had up before him a young man guilty of embezzling a comparatively small sum of money which he had spent gambling. Selby could have locked him up - and perhaps ruined his life. But he wanted to find the how and the why of this otherwise law-abiding young man''s gambling.Selby''s investigations led him to a hit-and-run motorcycle accident to blackmail and to the doorstep of DeWitt Stapleton the local big-wig who ran things in that part of the country by and for himself.