Just a bit too fast by Hal Moore
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"Just a bit too fast by Hal Moore" is a pulp crime short story written in the late 1920s. The tale centers on a crafty bank robber known as Thought-and-a-half Morgan and the detectives on his trail, blending disguise, bluff, and a rapid urban chase. Told by a local plainclothes cop paired with visiting Detective Halloran, the story opens with Morgan, disguised as an old woman, holding the two at gunpoint in
a quiet branch bank and escaping with cash to a waiting car. After a brief pursuit, Halloran diverts to a shabby downtown hideout identified from earlier intel, and the pair set an ambush in a dark room. When Morgan and his accomplice return, a tense doorfront showdown ends with Halloran’s shot knocking the gun from Morgan’s hand, the officers rushing both men, and the arrest made. The kicker: Halloran later credits brilliant tactics with surviving Morgan’s shot, but the narrator reveals it was dumb luck—the flashlight he “used” was accidentally snagged on his watch chain. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Moore, Hal |
|---|---|
| Title | Just a bit too fast |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929. |
| Series Title | Produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 16 1929. |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at www.pgdpcanada.net |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Police -- Fiction |
| Subject | Bank robbers -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77031 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-77031-4 |
| Release Date | Oct 11, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 406 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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