Fred Best and Edmund Reid in “Unfinished Business”

Fred Best tells you, he needs something shown in return.

You do as I ask, and I shall give you a story that, though you connive and bribe your way to the Devil himself, it will not be bettered.

[smiles] Go on.

"How Stanley Bone, secret slumlord, is exposed by the actions of a whore-runner." Corruption and sex, Mr. Best. Surely it does not come more honeyed than that!