Straight-Up Girl
By: by Darcy Glinto [pseudonym].
Publisher: Robin Hood Press
Published: 1949
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: You don’t know Gingell’s Pool Room?
Description: It started with pool rooms and the reform school.  There were always the “smarties” in the pool rooms who could flash around in swanky striped suits and pointed-toed shoes.  It looked swell to Les Meaker, but, it cost dollars and he found that working for hire was no weay of building up a roll of bills.  That was why he made his first appearance in a police court and spent a year in a reform school.  They hoped he was a “cure.”

Maybe the biggest trouble was Les’s vanity.  He had to look as big and as tough as the next guy.  That brought him a second and third appearance in the police court.  But the third time was different.  There was a robber with violence and attempted murder charge.

After that everything might have gone the way it does go in the making of a hoodlum What made a difference was Coral Follett.  She was straight-up first, last and all the time.  She believed in Les.  She had a very special kind of feeling about him.  Yet she stayed straight-up even though she killed Inspector McAllen when she fancied he had everything fixed to kill Les Meaker.