The Captive City

Jim Austin and Don Carey are co-owners of a newspaper in a city called Kennington, an outwardly typical clean-cut American community. Austin handles the editorial end and Carey looks after the business and advertising side. The young publishers become an important part of the community as normal hard-working small town citizens. This pleasant state of affairs is abruptly altered when Clyde Nelson, a local private detective, working on an apparently harmless divorce case, discovers the existence of a big-time gambling syndicate operating with the knowledge and consent of the city fathers, the local police and the respectable elements of the community. Before he can turn over the full facts to Austin, Nelson is murdered, …