Night and the City

The first title in ibooks' series of classic mysteries by Gerald Kersh. Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter in London, but he has a problem: he needs money. Not too much - only one hundred pounds, but it might as well be a million because he needs the money by the end of the week. Hunting for victims to blackmail and con out of money, Fabian moves through the clip joints, jazz clubs, wrestling gyms, bottle bars, and all-night cafes of 1930s London, spiralling further and further into the depths of immorality and depravity. And by the time his quest is over, Ilarry Fabian will have entered the tenth circle of the Inferno, dragging everybody he knows down with him...