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100	1		_aMoore, Hal
245	1	0	_aJust a bit too fast
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 16 1929.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-10-11
508			_aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520			_a"Just a bit too fast by Hal Moore" is a pulp crime short story written in the late 1920s. The tale centers on a crafty bank robber known as Thought-and-a-half Morgan and the detectives on his trail, blending disguise, bluff, and a rapid urban chase. Told by a local plainclothes cop paired with visiting Detective Halloran, the story opens with Morgan, disguised as an old woman, holding the two at gunpoint in a quiet branch bank and escaping with cash to a waiting car. After a brief pursuit, Halloran diverts to a shabby downtown hideout identified from earlier intel, and the pair set an ambush in a dark room. When Morgan and his accomplice return, a tense doorfront showdown ends with Halloran’s shot knocking the gun from Morgan’s hand, the officers rushing both men, and the arrest made. The kicker: Halloran later credits brilliant tactics with surviving Morgan’s shot, but the narrator reveals it was dumb luck—the flashlight he “used” was accidentally snagged on his watch chain. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
653			_aShort stories
653			_aPolice -- Fiction
653			_aBank robbers -- Fiction
830		0	_aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 16 1929.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77031
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