The Avenger
(1952)(A book in the Morgan Wayne series)
A novel by Matthew Blood (Davis Dresser and W Ryerson Johnson)
The Avenger, first published 1952, is a noir thriller centering on Morgan Wayne, a man determined to avenge those criminals - crime lords, gangsters, dope dealers, vice peddlers, and gunmen - the law treated as untouchable "...so he walked alone into the very heart of gangland to deal justice where the law had failed." Matthew Blood was a pen name for W. Ryerson Johnson in collaboration with David Dresser.
Used availability for Ryerson Johnson's The Avenger