Hickory House
| By Kenneth Orvis | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #367 |
| Release Month | 1956 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | The Brass Monkey |
| Followed by | Meredith Blake, M.D. |
- Author: Kenneth Orvis
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #367
- Year: 1956
Book Description
Hickory House - swankiest night club and only gambling house in the city, as attractive, warm and rich looking as money and "know how" could make it.
Hickory House - the result of a lifetimes hopes and ambitions. After lean years of insignificant books with their small bets and mean losers, hurried movings and furtive payoff, now Al Rossi was a Big Time operator with a whole city answering to him.
Hickory House - protected by the Mayor, whose shady past had to be kept from the public, leaving him no choice but to go along with Rossi.
Hickory House - too good to be overlooked by Pudsey Everest, biggest racketeer of all; too good to be given up without fighting back.
When Al Rossi said of his clientele, "They all end up the same way," he was not, of course, including himself, but he was to find out there are no exceptions.
