Genre: Courtroom / Romance

Originally printed in 1959.

DAVID KIRWAN—DISTRICT ATTORNEY

He liked the sound of that...

He had battled his way up from the sordid procedures of Police Court to being the fair-haired boy of the local machine. He was the hottest thing in politics and he knew it as well as Big Jim Farragut, the boss of Westchester County.

Now there was the Matson case, tailor-made to catapult him into the D.A.'s chair.

Was Matson guilty? Kirwan didn't care. Matson wasn't a human being to him any more. He was a means to an end. He would make Dave Kirwan's name a household word.

Transcribed by Kurt Brugel

Scratchboard book cover illustration by Kurt Brugel