Hell's Kitchen Has a Pantry

by Borden Chase

Marty Malone is a member of a street gang called the "Death Avenue Cowboys", consisting of poor children in Hell's Kitchen, New York. As the gang trys to steal fruit from a fruit warehouse, Marty starts a fire to distract the watchmen, unfortunately it turns into a real blaze and he is caught by the police. Even though the police give him a rough time in questioning, he refuses to say the names of any other gang members, thus saving his friends and accomplices from capture. Marty is sent to a reformatory for delinquents. Many years go by after that, and now Marty is the owner of the Cigarette Club in Manhattan. In tending to his business, he sends men to strong-arm a customer reluctant to pay a gambling debt. The goons, Sam and Frank Diamond, beat the customer up, accidentally killing him. They try to make his death look as if a neon sign fell on him. The police emergency squad investigating the death includes brothers Joe and Mike O'Mara, who graduated from Marty's childhood gang. Authorities dismiss the death as an accident, but Joe, eager to become a police detective, believes it was murder when he finds evidence that the support that gave way allowing the sign to fall was clearly cut rather than breaking with age.

250 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1937

Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖊 My review: Good story about honor, friendship, and honesty. Snappy dialogue, typical storyline.
✔️Published in 1937.
🤔 My rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🎥 Media form: 1938 movie version with Frank Jenks, Victor McLaglen, William Gargan, and Beatrice Roberts.
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