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What if leaving the underworld means turning against the ties that hold your life together?
In Leroy Scott’s Mary Regan, New York’s hard streets and quiet drawing rooms stand close together. Great wealth meets deep poverty, and honest people cross paths with crooks. At the center is Mary, a young woman bound to the underworld and pressed to choose between loyalty and conscience.
Scott makes this world a place of debts and ties as well as danger. Mary’s story turns on crime, loyalty and the pull of redemption: can a person leave the wrong side of the law behind? Secrets, suspense and sudden changes of fortune keep that question alive, while chapters close with questions that draw you onward.
What you’ll discover
- A city divided Enter a New York where wealth and poverty meet, and respectable lives touch the underworld.
- Mary’s divided loyalties Follow a young woman facing the pressure of choosing between conscience and the ties she knows.
- Debts beyond money Explore an underworld held together by loyalties and obligations, not danger alone.
- The pull of redemption Consider what it means to leave crime behind when your life remains bound to it.
- Suspense at every turn Let secrets, sudden turns of fortune and unanswered questions carry you into the next chapter.
Who will love it
Readers who like old New York, with its cabarets, hotel lobbies and Broadway gossip, will enjoy this. It suits anyone who loves a detective with a conscience and a heroine who argues with her own heart.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- The whole city sits down together
- Mary returns and two enemies make offers
- Mary says she is worldly and engaged
- Clifford finds the scheme and loosens his grip
- The Golden Doors and the father's offer
- Mary takes on Maisie Jones
- Jack vanishes and Le Minuit sets a trap
Who’s who
- Robert CliffordAn honest New York detective who believes people are shaped by their surroundings and who loves Mary Regan.
- Mary ReganThe daughter of a famous swindler, proud and clever, who plans to win wealth and status by marrying well.
- Peter LovemanA charming lawyer of scandals who turns the weaknesses of the rich into profit and wants Mary on his side.
- BradleyA former chief of detectives, now a private detective, who hates Clifford and sells his skills to the highest bidder.
- Jack MortonA pleasant, weak-willed son of a rich man who is drawn to company and drink and wants to please Mary.
- Uncle GeorgeA retired old crook who knows all of Broadway, jokes about everything and secretly cares for Clifford and Mary.
- Mr. MortonJack's father, a ruthless Chicago businessman who wants to run his son's life and his own affairs.
- Nina CordovaA pretty musical comedy star with a sharp mind who wants to marry rich and joins Loveman's plans.
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Mary Regan
by Leroy Scott · 1916
A detective who has promised to stay away from Mary Regan sees her leaving a New York restaurant with a famous lawyer.
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What does a detective do when he has promised to stay away from the woman he loves, and then sees her sweep down a staircase beside the city's cleverest lawyer? That is where Mary Regan begins.
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- About 5 h 40 min4 h 30 min fast, 6 h 40 min slow
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- 80,500 words
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- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1916by Leroy Scott
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The whole city sits down together
The novel opens on the night of a new show at the Grand Alcazar, a black and gold restaurant on Broadway. Clifford sits alone at a small table, and his eyes drift over the crowd. Without quite meaning to, he looks for Mary Regan, as he has looked for her during the six months of silence they agreed on. She said she would write when she was ready, so he waits.
He sees millionaires whose fortunes rest on schemes that clever lawyers kept just inside the law. Polished crooks dine with polished women. Clifford smiles grimly. There is no separate underworld and no separate upper world, because the two keep blending.
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Scott, Leroy. Mary Regan. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/mary-regan.
Scott, L. (2026). Mary Regan. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/mary-regan (Original work published 1916)
Scott, Leroy. Mary Regan. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/mary-regan.
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What is Mary Regan about?
It follows Robert Clifford, an honest New York detective, and Mary Regan, the daughter of a famous swindler, who plans to marry a rich young man. A scheming lawyer and a crooked ex-police chief try to use her.
Who is Peter Loveman?
Loveman is a charming New York lawyer who specializes in domestic scandals. He wins cases, backs shows and quietly arranges troubles for rich families, then profits from fixing them. He is the book's chief schemer.
What are the Golden Doors in Mary Regan?
Mary's own name for the life she wants: luxury, admiration and the pleasures money can buy. She pictures them as a glorious gate that opens when she marries into a rich family.
The author
Leroy Scott
1875–1929 · American novelist
Leroy Scott was an American writer who lived from 1875 to 1929. He was born in Indiana and later lived in New York City. He wrote novels, including Mary Regan, published in 1918, and Children of the Whirlwind, published in 1923.
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