Round Trip by W. R. Burnett

Originally published 1929 in Harper's; this edition 1995

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Collected in: Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian)

PG

(D, L)

Drug Use (PG) {Tobacco and alcohol}

Coarse Language (PG) {Not strong, I suppose not too frequent for so short a story}

Representations

Gender:

Tight third-person on male protagonist, only men have speaking parts.

Sex:

Vaguely heterosexual, in the sense that dancing with girls happens.

Race & Ethnicity:

Italian Mafiosi vs Irish cops.

Disability, Physical Diversity and Health:

The protagonist catches a random cold. That is all, I think.

Awards

Found no sign of any. Don't expect to find any before the second half of the century.

Notes

This was very short. Kind of darkly amusing with the contextually innocent Mafioso being turned around by the police.