# The big town

Author: Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933

Genre: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77676

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+big+town+Lardner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

HOOSIER CLEANS UP IN WALL STREET. Employees of the brokerage firm of H. L. Krause & Co. are authority for the statement that a wealthy Indiana speculator made one of the biggest killings of the year in the Street yesterday afternoon. No very definite information was obtainable, as the Westerner’s name was known to only one of the firm’s employees, Francis Griffin, and he was unable to recall it last night.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-town-77676/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-town-77676/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-town-77676/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-town-77676/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-town-77676/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Act 1 was in July, 1917. Ralston played the part of Francis Shaw, a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-big-town-77676/chapters/6/index.md)