Johnny Dynamite #10

A notorious thief known as "Raffles" has been systematically robbing wealthy homes on Long Island, always leaving his calling card—a severed telephone wire—at each crime scene. When the police devise an ingenious electrical switchboard system to detect cut wires across the neighborhood in real time, they finally have a chance to catch their quarry before he can slip away. It's a cat-and-mouse game of cunning and technology that tests both the thief's vanity and the police's patience.

Johnny Dynamite presents the sordid tale of Joe "Blackie" Wall, a ruthless extortionist who preys on his victims' darkest secrets with the help of his accomplice Dora Larkin—using staged scandals, stolen letters, and threats of exposure to bleed money from anyone too frightened to fight back. As Blackie's schemes grow bolder and his targets more prominent, he sets his sights on an old acquaintance whose past he believes he can leverage for a major payday. But blackmailers who push their luck too far often find that their most dangerous victim is the one with nothing left to lose.