Project Gutenberg 2025-03-31 Public domain in the USA. 161 Leinster, Murray 1896 1975 Jenkins, Will Jenkins, William Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, William Jenkins, Will F. Dames $aNew York, NY :$bShort Stories, Inc., $c1939. Produced from the August 10, 1939 issue of Short Stories magazine. Roger Frank and Sue Clark "Dames by Murray Leinster" is a short story most likely written during the early 20th century. The book is a work of crime fiction with a touch of drama, set against a foggy and remote maritime backdrop. The story’s atmosphere and dialogue reflect the style and social sentiments characteristic of pulp magazines from that time. At its heart, the story focuses on the complicated relationships and desperate circumstances surrounding a fugitive, a resilient young woman, and a tough local man. The story follows a man who narrowly escapes drowning after leaping from a steamer while being transported as a prisoner. Rescued by a resourceful young woman, he becomes entangled in her own troubles—the looming presence of Butch Traynor, a notorious local figure who seeks to force the woman into marriage. As tensions rise in the fog-bound isolation of her family’s island, the three characters converge in a conflict fueled by fear, desperation, and twisted affections. The man from the water is revealed not as a federal agent, as he first claims, but as a wanted criminal. In the end, the woman and Butch reconcile, leaving the fugitive to continue his escape alone, hardened and disillusioned, encapsulated by his final, contemptuous utterance: "Dames!" (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/short-stories-august-10th-1939 20250309114746leinster 1939 US Reading ease score: 87.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Short stories Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Fugitives from justice -- Fiction Inside Passage -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery 52969 2025-06-30T05:00:12.720074 text/html 29236 2025-03-31T08:38:33 text/html 412856 2025-06-30T05:00:15.246104 application/epub+zip 411659 2025-06-30T05:00:13.635096 application/epub+zip 153696 2025-06-30T05:00:13.088123 application/epub+zip 1010708 2025-06-30T05:00:16.524086 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1004374 2025-06-30T05:00:14.862065 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 45538 2025-06-30T05:00:12.594087 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 25868 2025-03-31T08:38:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16678 2025-06-30T05:00:16.652052 application/rdf+xml 28453 2025-06-30T05:00:13.313076 image/jpeg 4547 2025-06-30T05:00:13.198077 image/jpeg 381851 2025-06-30T05:00:12.732078 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia