Ladies of Chance

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Lowdown doings in a high society setting bring adventure to these fascinating characters:　

ED BARLOW, an ace reporter who was rough, tough and hard as nails — but soft on a gang-girl who tripped him with a smile.

CHERRY MALONE, a hard-to-get cutie who ran Ed ragged in a trigger-quick romance that got too hot to handle.

DOLLY, Ed’s old flame, who was in the kind of trouble Ed couldn’t resist...

MRS. LUCILE TRAVERS, a society temptress who had Ed coming and going until he fell into a booby-trap set by the underworld.

STORMY PARKER, whose gambling-den was a front for the most vicious racket that ever men-aced the female sex.

HARRY GREEN, a crook who payed a gun-man’s game and got himself a hole in the head.

SANDRA, the seductive woman of mystery whom Ed met face to face at last!

I didn’t have any idea what I was walking into when I knocked on the door of the Meade apartment that afternoon. I had hesitated a long time about accepting Herman’s invitation to drop in on his wife while he was out of town, finally deciding that Dolly couldn’t bore me any more than I was already bored.

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