“The Grease Spot”
by L. Ron Hubbard

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Publication date: July 1936

Original publication: Thrilling Detective

Genre: Mystery & Suspense

Story description: The owner of a wrecking company stumbles on two violent bank robbers who decide that he is their ticket to freedom and they are his ticket to a watery grave.

Currently available as part of the Stories from the Golden Age series, in the title Mouthpiece.