Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE.3. PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.4. WORDS OF COMMENDATION.5. CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE AMERICA'S FOREMOST DETECTIVE.6. GRAFT NATION'S WORST FOE.7. How Three Book Monte Is Played.8. BOOK LOVERS EASY PREY OF FRAUDS.9. DETECTIVE CLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE'S "Never-Fail" System10. The Best Rules for Health, Happiness and Success.11. COINING CUPID'S WILES.12. THE GREAT MISTAKE. OUR PENAL SYSTEM IS A RELIC OF EARLY SAVAGERY.13. VAGRANTS; WHO AND WHY.14. THE YOUNG CRIMINAL HOW HE IS BRED IN CHICAGO.15. WILES OF FORTUNE TELLING.16. WIFE OR GALLOWS? PREFERS HANGING TO LIVING WITH HIS WIFE.17. A CLEVER SHOPLIFTER. DETECTIVE WOOLDRIDGE FINDS A FAIR CRIMINAL.18. FRONT.19. LAST CHANCE GONE.20. BURGLARY A SCIENCE.21. CELL TERMS FOR "CON" MEN.22. PANEL HOUSE THIEVES.23. GAMBLING AND CRIME.24. A HEARTLESS FRAUD.25. THE BOGUS MINE.26. A GIANT SWINDLE.27. QUACKS.28. FABULOUS LOSSES IN BIG TURF FRAUDS.29. FAKE DRUG VENDORS.30. BUCKET-SHOP.31. ON "SURE THINGS."32. HUGE SWINDLES BARED.33. THE SOCIAL EVIL.34. SUPPRESS MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF DANGEROUS WEAPONS—THEY ARE A CONSTANT MENACE TO LIFE AND GOOD ORDER.35. GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.36. WANT AD. FAKERS.37. MILLIONAIRE BANKER AND BROKER ARRESTED.38. DORA McDONALD.39. Dramatic Scene in Courtroom.40. MIKE McDONALD.41. Burial of "Mike" McDonald Serves to Open New Chapter in His Troubles—Old Scandals Denied.