Did you ever spend your spare time planning a caper which involved robbing a safe deposit box? Neither did Tommy Dancer, but as a lock and key expert he found himself involved in someone else’s plans. Tommy was a young man with deft fingers and not

too

many morals and THE LOCK AND THE KEY is the story of what happened to him when he listened to a man with more cunning than locksmithing ability.

THE LOCK AND THE KEY is a fast and fascinating story with a very unusual background. We particularly recommend it to bank presidents (a warning), bank robbers (how-to-do-it) — and to the thousands of readers who would no more miss a new Gruber than rob a safe deposit box.