The Hungry Dog

Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg have got themselves into strange predicaments, but now wealth, at last, seems to have come to them. It appeared one afternoon in the person of a Mr. Harold Hofnagel, a St. Louis lawyer, who brought the news that Sam’s Uncle Julius had died, and Sam was the sole heir.

This was fine, until Sam, accompanied by Johnny, went to see the estate. There was a large house, a lot of ground, no money and some dogs; not one dog, but two hundred. Every one of them a St. Bernard... And they bad to be fed.

It wasn’t long before Johnny and Sam discovered that Uncle Julius had been something else besides a dog fancier. He had been highly unpopular with a number of people. Soon Sam and Johnny were up to their necks in murder trouble. But this time it took more than smooth talking to get out of it.

THE HUNGRY DOG is a fine Gruber. There is humor, suspense, a story that moves with hard-punching excitement. Johnny and Sam have never been better.