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The Edge of Night
I. Police Lieutenant Mike Karr dearly loves young Sara Lane, though career demands have delayed their marriage. Sara's mother Mattie thoroughly approves her romance, but brother Jack is very resentful of Mike's influence on him.
Monticello, TV backdrop for events in The Edge Of Night, is a typical town and, day by day, the town and its people are becoming better known. As in any middle-sized city, everybody knows everybody. In Monticello, there are the good people and the bad. There are the public-spirited and the self-seeking. The open, respectable happenings which make the town a charming place to live . . . and the boiling undercurrent of evil doings which stand revealed in the annals of the Police Department.
Any gossip in Monticello could tell you about the people of the town, but it would be better to ask Lieut. Mike Karr of the Police Department. Because Mike's a smart young man. He's studying for his bar examinations, you' know. And he's got his eye on the D. A.'s office. Mike would know the true story of the town. Perhaps he wouldn't want to talk. But let's suppose for a minute that he would. He could tell about the Lanes, and that Spode family in town, and Grace O'Keefe, who's public stenographer at the Plaza Hotel, and her boyfriends. If he'd talk. . . .
"Harry Lane?" Mike Karr would say. "Harry is an
enigma to most of this town. But I take a cagey view of Harry. He runs a business here, seems on the level. But, a while ago, a truck of his got hijacked. Supposed to be handling a regular shipment for Harry's business firm. But, when the police got hold of it, it turned out to be loaded with a shipment of 'hot' mink! It took us time and a lot of police work, but we got the guy responsible. Harry Lane's assistant — man named Spode — apparently tried to run through some stolen merchandise without letting Harry know what he was up to. We caught the guys who hijacked the truck — one by the name of Bill Smith — red-handed. And we found one of his accomplices, a no-good teenager named Walt Johnson. But we missed Smith's partner.
"We know who he is, all right. Fellow named Larry White. But my partner in the Force, Charlie, didn't close in quite fast enough on the day we made the arrests, and Larry got away. Of course, the two we caught eventually 'sang.' That's how Spode finally was implicated.
"I can understand how Spode might have gotten off the straight and narrow. He's got a nice wife, nice kid.
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