Gordon John Thomson
ASIN: B093FYVL8M
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 357
Last Tram to WappingThe autumn of 1931 and the Great Depression has spread its grip from America to an England still struggling to recover from the Great War...Danny Fuller is an ex-soldier and survivor of the trenches who has struggled to adjust to peace time. Then Danny happens to meet an old comrade from the War, Frank Royden, and agrees to take part in a daring jewel robbery in the City of London in partnership with Royden and a violent Glaswegian thug, Ross MacKenzie...But the robbery goes badly wrong when the police are alerted and the gang has to scatter. Royden and MacKenzie go into hiding, but Danny manages to deliver the diamonds to Royden’s young mistress, Phyllis Bold. Yet Phyllis soon betrays everybody by drugging Danny and disappearing to Liverpool with the diamonds herself.In desperation Danny also flees to Liverpool in the hope of getting on a ship out of the country. ...