num_pages: 247
description: "You've got to get him, boys -- get him or bust!" said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant "resignation" for the police chief, return to the hated work of pounding the pavements for them -- they knew it, and, knowing it, could summon no gesture of bravado to answer their chief's. Gunmen, thugs, hijackers, loft-robbers, murderers, they could get them all in time -- but they could not get the man he wanted. "Get him -- to hell with expense -- I'll give you carte blanche -- but get him!" said a haggard millionaire in the sedate inner offices of the best private detective firm in the country. The man on the other side of the desk, man hunter extraordinary, old servant of Government and State, sleuthhound without a peer, threw up his hands in a gesture of odd hopelessness. "It isn't the money, Mr. De Courcy -- I'd give every cent I've made to get the man you want -- but I can't promise you results -- for the first time in my life."
language: English
title: The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fiction, Literary, Mystery & Detective
titlecomplete: The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Fiction, Literary, Mystery & Detective
characters: Billy the gardener, Dale Ogden, Lizzie Allen (The Bat), The Bat, Detective Anderson, Cornelia Van Gorder
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Thriller, Golden Age Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 955
publisher: Wildside Pr