When her father, the Marsh King, escapes from prison, Helena must rely on all her survival skills to confront him for all the years he kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness.

City of shadows: Big Tim Channing is a small-time racketeer who makes a living supplying old, out-of-date slot machines to businesses. He strikes up a prosperous partnership with newsboy Dan Mason when the precocious kid shows him how to corner the slot-machine racket and, at the same time, put his crooked competitors out of the running. But when Dan grows up and graduates from law school, it thrusts old Tim into a compromising position. Crashout:...