The Secret Toll

Popular mystery novel, first published in 1922. The story begins: "I’m damned if I give up a cent! I’ll die first!" "You very likely will. Others have. To refuse these people is the first step toward suicide." "But are the police so impotent that a gang like this one can operate unmolested right under their very noses?" "The police are efficient in ordinary cases. These people, however, operate mysteriously. So far, the police have been helpless.”