The Steel Noose

<p>THE STEEL NOOSE</p><p><br></p><p>Boyd McGee is a popular NYC columnist so it comes as no surprise when a lawyer gives him a tip that a nameless client is being sued for divorce. He files that one away but later that evening his cabby contact gives him an even juicier tip-tobacco king K. L. Benson has been seen escorting the beautiful Karen Lamain out of an uptown apartment building. Lamain is the wife of Charlie Whipper a blackmailer doing time for a failed bank robbery. </p><p><br></p><p>Boyd doesn't make the connection but when his column appears the next morning he finds that he has stirred a hornet's nest. Benson is the lawyer's anonymous tip and both the Feds and the hoods figure that his escort knows where Whipper's stashed half-a-million is. And they all want to know where <em>she</em> is. Naturally they all figure that the only guy with this info is Boyd...</p><p><br></p><p>Black Gat Book #57.</p><p><br></p>