Project Gutenberg 2008-10-12 Public domain in the USA. 106 Keller, David H. (David Henry) 1880 1966 Cecil, Henry Keller, David Henry Kotzky, Alex 1923 1996 Kotzky, Alexander S. The Rat Racket Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) en Short stories Gangsters -- Fiction Rats -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 67559 67569 2024-09-11T11:06:13.350370 2023-09-12T05:09:12.186700 text/html text/html 63787 2008-10-12T11:51:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 100343 2008-10-12T11:51:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 138318 2024-09-11T11:06:16.948316 application/epub+zip 137377 2024-09-11T11:06:14.650355 application/epub+zip 63895 2024-09-11T11:06:13.763345 application/epub+zip 279306 2024-09-11T11:06:18.571297 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 271500 2024-09-11T11:06:16.306374 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 114761 2022-09-12T11:47:51.656687 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 60124 60024 2024-09-11T11:06:13.127374 2023-09-12T05:09:11.977689 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 60039 2008-10-12T11:51:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 23147 2008-10-12T11:51:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19559 2024-09-11T11:06:18.709334 application/rdf+xml 9793 2024-09-11T11:06:14.102315 image/jpeg 2880 2024-09-11T11:06:13.932336 image/jpeg 139388 2024-09-11T11:06:13.361342 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia