White Moll

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Crime & Mystery Fiction

Authors: Frank L. Packard In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

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Night in the Underworld
Seven-Three-Nine
Alias Gypsy Nan
The Adventurer
A Second Visitor
The Rendezvous
Fellow Thieves
The Code Message
Room Number Eleven
On The Brink
Some of the Lesser Breed
Crooks vs Crooks
The Door Across The Hall
The Lame Man
In The Council Chamber
The Secret Panel
The Silver Sphinx
The Old Shed
Bread Upon The Waters
The Lone Hand
The Reckoning

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with bridging the gap from the “cozy” style mysteries to the more gritty, hard-boiled style of such writers as Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler. Packard also wrote a series of novels, beginning in 1917, featuring Jimmie Dale. A wealthy playboy by day, at night, Jimmie becomes a crimefighter “The Gray Seal” complete with mask and secret hide-out, “The Sanctuary”. This character certainly influenced later crime-fighting characters such as Batman and The Shadow.

In The White Moll (1920) Rhoda Gray, “The White Moll”, an angel of mercy who spends her time helping the poor in the slums of New York City, is drawn into the criminal world when she attempts to help Gypsy Nan, who is not what she seems. Accused of a crime and on the run from the police, she must battle the most nefarious criminal gang in the New York underworld to prove her innocence. Populated by such characters as Pierre Dangler, the Pug, Pinkie Bonn, Skeeny, the Sparrow and above all “the Adventurer”, this story contains shoot-outs, car chases, adventure and enough suspense and deception to satisfy the most avid mystery lover. (Summary by Rowdy Delaney)