TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keller,David H.
AU  - Kotzky,Alex
TI  - The Rat Racket
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Gangsters -- Fiction
KW  - Rats -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2008-10-12; Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Rat Racket" by David H. Keller, M.D. is a thrilling story that falls within the realm of crime fiction, likely written in the early 20th century. The plot centers around the alarming rise of racketeering through a bizarre and destructive method involving rats, threatening various businesses in a bustling metropolis. With Keller's clever narrative, the book explores themes of corruption, fear, and the unexpected consequences of a criminal underworld.  The storyline unfolds through the experiences of Richard Moyer and Paul Perkins, owners of a grocery business besieged by a racketeering gang demanding payment for "protection" from rats. As the menace grows, they find themselves ensnared in a web of fear and financial extortion, leading to devastating consequences for their city and its citizens. The arrival of the enigmatic Winifred Willowby offers a glimmer of hope, as he devises a plan to combat the rat-induced havoc. However, the plan's execution leads to an unexpected and chaotic culmination at a gathering of gangsters, resulting in a dramatic turn of events that underscores the story's chilling warning about the depths of human greed and the perils of underestimating one’s adversaries. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26890
ER  -