# The D.A. Holds a Candle

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- Authors: [A. A. Fair](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-a-fair)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-934-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Douglas Selby, the ambitious young District Attorney of the territory around Madison City, had up before him a young man guilty of embezzling a comparatively small sum of money which he had spent gambling. Selby could have locked him up - and perhaps ruined his life. But he wanted to find the how and the why of this otherwise law-abiding young man's gambling. Selby's investigations led him to a hit-and-run motorcycle accident, to blackmail, and to the doorstep of DeWitt Stapleton, the local big-wig, who ran things in that part of the country by and for himself.